00:00 Well, it's always been an issue with this case, including in the trial that happened
00:06 last year, which was abandoned with no findings against Mr Lehrman, that Brittany Higgins
00:14 handed her phones to police sometime after they'd first sought them.
00:21 Now today, Mr Lehrman's lawyer, Steve Weibrow, has suggested to her that she deleted text
00:28 messages that might cause doubt about her version of events.
00:33 But Ms Higgins has countered saying that many of those text messages, which were recovered
00:40 on the phones of the recipients, she says many of those would have perhaps helped her,
00:46 and so she had no interest in deleting them deliberately.
00:51 But she said some of them were lost when she moved from one phone to another, and she'd
00:57 done that a couple of times in the years since this alleged offence.
01:04 About the bumble date Brittany Higgins was on the night of the alleged offence?
01:09 Yes, this has long been known, that when the group went to the dock, Brittany Higgins had
01:19 actually taken her bumble date with her.
01:23 Today there were some questions about what his name was, and Steve Weibrow referred to
01:29 him as Nick, and Brittany Higgins said, "Well, I'd never remembered his name."
01:35 But in fact, Steve Weibrow pointed out she'd mentioned his name to the police and in the
01:41 draft of a book that she was writing, and eventually she did concede that she must have
01:47 remembered it, although she's forgotten it in the interim.
01:51 Why this matters is that we were shown more vision of the dock today, and Mr Weibrow was
01:59 trying to demonstrate that Brittany Higgins had actually left her bumble date and gone
02:06 to talk to Bruce Lehrman out of choice.
02:10 Today she said, "Yes, I know I was very rude, but they were talking about the election and
02:14 I was interested in what they were saying."
02:17 So this contest is set to go on with Brittany Higgins' cross-examination continuing this
02:23 afternoon.
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