Bruce Lehrmann’s lie detector offer
Bruce Lehrmann has offered to take a lie detector test to determine what really occurred the night he returned to Parliament House with Brittany Higgins.
The former Liberal Party staffer was quizzed by Nat Barr and Matt Shirvington on Sunrise about the timeline of events that took place on the evening that Ms Higgins accused Lehrmann of sexually assaulting her, as he shared what he would do to clear his name once and for all.
After being asked by Nat Barr if he would undergo a lie detector test, Lehrmann, who has long maintained his innocence, said, “Absolutely, yes, I get that this has divided the nation and that just because of the high-profile nature of it and how this is a bad thing in the first place.”
During the Sunrise interview, Mr Lehrmann said he did in fact see ten missed calls from his then girlfriend when he was in the office after 2am.
At his trial, the jury was told he arrived at parliament at 1:40am and entered the office with Ms Higgins after a security officer unlocked the door at 1:48am and left the office without her at 2:31am the same morning.
Barr asked Lehrmann why he didn’t check on Ms Higgins before he fled Parliament House and asked whether saying goodbye was “just a natural human behaviour”.
“In hindsight, probably, I also had missed calls from my girlfriend when I saw my phone on the desk, I thought, maybe I should get out and go home,” he said.
“Isn’t that a bit weird, you’re going back with someone in the middle of the night to do work and then you just take off?” Barr continued.
“I had no reason to suspect … I didn’t expect that she needed to be checked on, she also needed to go back into work,” he said.
Although the trial is over, many have continued to debate Lehrmann’s innocence, which Nat Barr summed up at the end of the interview by asking, “Why would she [Higgins] go to all this trouble and make it up?”
“Well, I’m not in her mind,” Lehrmann said.
Image credits: Sunrise