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Miklos Bolza

Higgins left 'bread crumb' lies to keep job, court told

Brittany Higgins left a false trail to avoid a career-limiting moment, a judge has heard. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins told a series of lies about being raped by Bruce Lehrmann because she thought she was going to be fired, a judge has been told.

Lehrmann's counsel Steven Whybrow SC told a Federal Court defamation trial Ms Higgins left a "false trail" after realising she had been found naked and asleep on a couch in Senator Linda Reynolds' office in March 2019.

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