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Bruce Lehrmann made a frantic dash up the highway and out of Sydney in the moments after he was branded a rapist by a Federal Court judge, seeking refuge from media inside a police station.
Lehrmann found out he lost his lengthy defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson on Monday morning when Justice Michael Lee handed down his 324-page judgement.
The judge found, on a balance of probabilities, that Lehrmann did rape Brittany Higgins inside Parliament House in the early hours of March 23, 2019 - despite his insistence to the contrary.
The findings were an unexpected blow for Lehrmann, who brought the legal action on himself, and he apparently couldn't wait to get out of the court on Monday.
Together with his lawyers, he charged from the court, dodging television cameras and reporters with microphones, and refusing to answer questions like, 'how humiliating is this for you?' and 'was it worth it?'
He was chased across the road on foot and into his lawyer's office, before he left the office and jumped in a borrowed Mazda CX9 and drove to the Central Coast.
One freelance photographer told Daily Mail Australia that Lehrmann knew he was being followed and drove around Lane Cove and the M1 motorway trying unsuccessfully to lose the cameras.
Bruce Lehrmann (pictured) bolted from the court to his lawyers office on Monday, before he fled Sydney
Bruce Lehrmann sought refuge inside Gosford Police Station (pictured)
Following a pursuit around Sydney's lower north shore, the pair wound up travelling along North Connex before a woman in a white utility
