Brittany Higgins will proceed giving proof on day three of the trial for the person accused of raping her.
Bruce Lehrmann has pleaded not responsible to sexual activity with out consent and is dealing with trial within the ACT Supreme Court docket.
Higgins sat within the witness field for the primary time yesterday afternoon after beforehand offering proof through video-link from one other room within the courthouse.
The court docket was proven CCTV footage from the evening of the alleged assault and prosecutor Shane Drumgold requested Higgins to establish a number of folks within the video.
The footage confirmed Lehrmann and Higgins consuming with colleagues at The Dock in Canberra on Friday, March 22, 2019.
Over the course of 4 and a half hours Higgins is seen to have 11 drinks.
She later advised police her recollections from the evening have been "patchy" due to how drunk she was.
Higgins advised police she and Lehrmann went to a preferred nightclub with two colleagues, who had additionally been on the bar, after which shared a taxi dwelling within the early hours of Saturday morning.
On the way in which, Lehrmann advised Higgins he wanted to choose up some paperwork from the workplace at Parliament Home.
The pair labored as political staffers for then-minister Linda Reynolds.
Higgins alleges after the 2 of them entered Senator Reynolds' workplace she fell asleep on a sofa and woke as much as Lehrmann having intercourse along with her.
Recounting the alleged rape, Higgins mentioned she felt "trapped" and "not human" as Lehrmann hovered over her.
"It did not really feel prefer it was about me in any respect," she mentioned.
Later in a textual content message to her ex-boyfriend Ben Dillaway, Higgins mentioned she had been "barely lucid".
"I actually do not feel prefer it was consensual in any respect," she mentioned.
She additionally expressed concern on the story changing into public data and later advised police she feared damaging the Liberal Get together with the allegations.