Retired Liberal MP Steve Irons and Tasmanian senator Wendy Askew due in WA supreme court witness box on Friday
A federal senator and a retired former assistant minister are set to testify in the high-profile defamation between Linda Reynolds and her former staffer Brittany Higgins.
Higgins alleged that Lehrmann raped her in Reynolds’ office in 2019. Lehrmann has always denied the allegation and his criminal trial was derailed by juror misconduct. The charge against him was dropped after a second trial was abandoned due to fears about Higgins’ health. Andrew Reynolds rejected Higgins’ claim the senator had engaged in a political cover-up of the alleged sexual assault.
“I had some pop up in my feed a couple of days ago where one particular person was saying that he doubted that Linda had the heart problems she claimed because he doubted she had a heart,” he said.“It happens all the time. You’ll see it on her Instagram feed ... how could you cover this up and so forth?”
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