Thursday 6 October 2022 12:55 AM Brittany Higgins, Bruce Lehrmann trial: Higgins weeps as she watches moment ... trends now
Brittany Higgins has wept in court as the trial of her accused rapist Bruce Lehrmann was shown the moment the pair arrived at Parliament House on the night of the alleged assault.
Video shown to the ACT Supreme Court on Thursday featured Ms Higgins, now 27, and Mr Lehrmann walking through metal detectors twice and taking off her black stilettos that March 2019 evening.
Ms Higgins broke down as the footage was shown to the jury.
Sitting in the witness box, Ms Higgins said she didn't remember 'any of it'.
Footage showed that Ms Higgins - who the court earlier heard was 'Schoolies drunk' that night - struggled to buckle her shoes up after walking through security.
She then walked barefoot in a white cocktail dress through the corridors, carrying her shoes in her hand, according to the clip.
Brittany Higgins arrives in ACT Supreme Court in Canberra before taking to the witness stand in the trial of her alleged rapist on Thursday
Pictured: Brittany Higgins arriving at court in Canberra for Bruce Lehrmann's rape trial
Ms Higgins was then shown photographs of the office where she allegedly raped, including the grey leather couch.
The couch faced Ms Reynolds' old desk, next to an Australian flag. She held it together as the pictures were shown.
Ms Higgins arrived at court on Thursday dressed in black. She is expected to be cross-examined by Lehrmann's lawyer, possibly as early as today.
Ms Higgins had been visibly emotional at the end of yesterday's trial after watching CCTV footage of herself at a bar in Canberra.
The footage, which was played for the court, showed Ms Higgins arriving at venue The Dock in Kingston at 7.24pm - where she drank 11 vodkas over a four-hour period.
She said in a police interview in 2021, which was also shown in court on Wednesday, that she was 'schoolies drunk' that evening, and had never been so intoxicated.
The rest of the security tape will be shown to the court on Thursday, and will feature footage from the time she spent at nightclub, 88mph, and the moment she and Mr Lehrmann got inside Parliament House.
The pair worked as political staffers for then-minister Linda Reynolds.
Ms Higgins alleges after the two of them entered Senator Reynolds' office she fell asleep on a couch and woke up to Lehrmann having sex with her.
Recounting the alleged rape, Ms Higgins said she felt "trapped" and "not human" as Lehrmann hovered over her.
"It didn't feel like it was about me at all," she said.
Later in a text message to her ex-boyfriend Ben Dillaway, Ms Higgins said she had been "barely lucid".
"I really don't feel like it was consensual at all," she said.
She also expressed concern at the story becoming public knowledge and later told police she feared damaging the Liberal Party with the allegations.
The trial continues.
Earlier in the trialIn the initial police interview, recorded in February 2021 and played to the court on Wednesday, Ms Higgins said she remembered dancing alone in the crowd at the Canberra night spot 88mph on that Friday evening in March 2019.
She told police she took shots after already drinking for some time. 'I was really intoxicated and it was really weird,' she said.
'I drink socially but I don't usually get obliterated,
