Reynolds is suing former staffer over social media posts she alleges damaged her reputation
Linda Reynolds’ lawyer has told a court “every fairytale needs a villain” and has claimed Brittany Higgins and her husband schemed to ambush the Western Australian senator as part of a sophisticated media plan.
Linda Reynolds’ defamation action against Brittany Higgins has gone to trial: how did we get here and what happens next?The veracity of Higgins’ rape allegations has never been questioned by Reynolds, Bennett said. Bennett also argued that Higgins and her now husband, David Sharaz, conceived a media plan down to the last detail, with Bennett saying the evidence would prove Higgins “needed a villain” and decided to “cast” Reynolds in that role.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Reynolds claimed the payment to Higgins was finalised in an “unusually swift” manner, “raising serious questions about how this significant sum of public money was determined and allocated”.Our Australian morning briefing breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what’s happening and why it mattersagainst her former staffer, saying “ever since Ms Higgins first made her allegations of rape public, I have been the target of unwarranted criticism and abuse”.
Bennett pulled up a number of pictures of Higgins smiling in campaign pictures in Western Australia, and text exchanges she shared with her then boyfriend, Ben Dillaway.
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