Lisa Wilkinson lodges an official complaint with Channel Seven over Bruce Lehrmann interview
- Complaint relates to Lehrmann’s Spotlight inteview
- Also to alleged letter sent to Wilkinson by Higgins
Lisa Wilkinson has reportedly lodged an official complain with Seven about its recent Bruce Lehrmann interview.
The Project host filed the complaint on Tuesday alleging the broadcast breached commercial television standards.
Her complaint relates to the Spotlight interview with Mr Lehrmann on 4 June and a segment on Sunrise two days letter which referred to a letter allegedly sent to Wilkinson by Brittany Higgins, according to The Guardian.
Lisa Wilkinson (pictured) has reportedly lodged an official complain with the Seven Network about its recent Bruce Lehrmann interview
Bruce Lehrmann (pictured) broke his silence in a TV interview two years after Brittany Higgins accused him of raping her in Parliament House
The explosive interview, which broke Mr Lehrmann’s two-year media silence, revealed never-before-seen security footage of Mr Lehrmann and Ms Higgins entering parliament House on the night of the alleged assault and a recording of a five-hour lunch Ms Higgins had with Wilkinson and two others before she spoke on The Project.
While the contents of Wilkinson’s complaint are unclear, it is understood layers for Network ten and Wilkinson are concerned that Seven appeared to have improperly used evidence from Mr Lehrmann’s trial in the Spotlight program.
CCTV footage captured the pair at a Canberra bar earlier that night. During his interview, Mr Lehrmann was grilled over an alleged eyewitness account of him and Ms Higgins kissing at the venue – but he denied anything of the sort took place
Ms Higgins alleges she was raped by Mr Lehrmann in Parliament House after a night out in 2019. Mr Lehrmann has always maintained his innocence.
Until the Spotlight interview, Mr Lehrmann remained quiet about the night in question, speaking only in a recorded interview with police in 2021 – which was played before the ACT Supreme Court during his criminal trial in October last year.
Now, Mr Lehrmann has responded to a number of direct questions, including: Did you rape Brittany Higgins? Did you have consensual sex? Did you kiss her? Were you intimate with her at all?
To each question, Mr Lehrmann replied ‘no’.
Lehrmann is suing Ten and Wilkinson over their initial reporting of Higgins’s rape allegation.
