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Just days after she finished giving evidence against her former colleague Bruce Lehrmann in the ACT Supreme Court, Ms Higgins fled Canberra for the sparkling shores of Port Macquarie.
Officers had been called in to search for the ex-political staffer, while an ambulance was sent to her hotel in early October, while Bruce Lehrmann stood trial in the ACT Supreme Court.
ACT's Supreme Court heard, for the first time, the testimony of Bruce Lehrmann - the 26-year-old accused of raping his former colleague inside Parliament House in 2019.