Not that I am following it extremely closely, but once again I am amazed at how such a legal saga, starting with a woman found naked in parliamentary minister's office, has involved seemingly every single person involved in any way looking tainted in one way or another - on all "sides" of the matter, including the media and journalists reporting on it, and up to and including the former judge inquiring as to what went wrong amongst other lawyers and police.
This post is prompted by the first link above - Samantha Maiden now passing on what Sky News publicised first - secret recordings from an "unknown" source eavesdropping on the Higgin's lawyer's conversation at a restaurant. Oh yeah, "unknown person" - what are the chances that this is only because some political operative or other is financing a hunt for "dirt" on the Higgins side and told the private detective agency that they needed "plausible deniability" for the source. ("So, outsource the job, and we don't want to know who did it.")
Also - yesterday, Higgins was complaining about a page of her diary appearing in the media again when it is obvious it was leaked to them by the police.
Of course, Higgins herself has had to admit to some lies as well, although as you can probably tell, I don't see how anyone with a brain would be feeling sympathy to Lehrmann, whose character is taking some major hits.
But it is truly remarkable how it seems that absolutely everyone involved, right from the very start, seems to have stuffed up their response in one way or another.
Neither of them come out of this looking peachy. A legal conversation in a public setting is careless if not reckless. A private investigator was probably stalking waiting for that one careless moment.
ReplyDeleteBH and BL are hiding mutually damaging information. I wouldn't be surprised if they were doing Coke and went back to PH for a lark. I find BL's argument about forgetting his keys as the reason to be suspicious, especially given warnings about his prior security issues. A coke hit declines in ~30 mins, BH decided to have a lie down, and fell asleep.
There is so much about this that doesn't make sense. Why would BL rape her while she was unconscious and then leave her naked in a minister's office? He is either an idiot or was so inebriated he didn't have a clue about how reckless he was being.
The broader problem is that these are political staffers hired by politicians. I hope these two are not representative of the quality of political staff!
The big thing against him is why was she naked. People who drink too much do not take off their clothes to sleep it off.
ReplyDeleteThe big thing against him is why was she naked. People who drink too much do not take off their clothes to sleep it off.
ReplyDeleteHow intoxicated does a person have to be not to be woken when being undressed and raped? The video of her walking into the PH doesn't indicate she was overly intoxicated. I think there is more than alcohol involved. Conspiracy theory number infinity: it was the security guard that raped her!