Bruce Lehrmann pulls the plug on ‘Presumption of Innocence’ conference after court ruled he was a rapist – here’s his reason why
Bruce Lehrmann has pulled out of a $110-a-head speaking event organised by a prominent men’s rights activist, following his crushing defamation defeat.
Bruce Lehrmann was set to headline a conference called ‘Restoring the Presumption of Innocence’, to be held at an unnamed location in Sydney’s Rushcutters Bay on June 1.
The event was organised by author and #MenToo advocate Bettina Arndt and sponsored by Mothers of Sons, a group of ‘ordinary women’ whose sons have been falsely accused of gendered violence.
It promised to ‘challenge the group-think muzzling our cultural dialogue to expose the truth about what counts as justice in Australia’.
Lehrmann was to be a start attraction, but organisers confirmed on Tuesday that he cancelled.
The move came just one day after Federal Court judge Michael Lee found on a civil standard that he raped Brittany Higgins on March 23, 2019.
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