EXCLUSIVE
An MP rocked by allegations of sexual assault and drug use had spent the night socializing before she was allegedly filmed being sexually abused in the street outside a hotel.
Queensland state Labor MP Brittany Lauga, 37, later revealed that hospital tests found she had MDMA in her system, despite not knowingly taking the drug.
In a series of online messages following the incident, she said she had no idea who her abuser was and told an acquaintance: “I was crazy.”
Daily Mail Australia has chosen not to publish the video of Ms Lauga being abused in full view of the public, drinkers and nearby fast food customers.
An acquaintance who alerted the parliamentarian to the existence of the video warned her: “(It’s) not nice.”
A second video clip following the incident shows the MP wearing a flowy orange dress on the main street of Yeppoon in central Queensland.
The videos were filmed outside The Strand Hotel, between the city’s coastal boulevard and the beach, sometime after midnight in the early morning hours of Sunday, April 28.
Brittany Lauga is the local MP for Keppel and a Deputy Minister in the Queensland Government.
The Keppel state member is seen with a man at Yeppoon’s Anzac parade after an earlier incident that was also filmed with a woman who was with her texting to alert Brittany about the “not pleasant” images.
Police are investigating the alleged assault which was filmed in the early hours of April 28 on Yeppoon’s main street, opposite the town’s main hotel, The Strand.
Ms Lauga, the Yeppoon member for the Queensland state seat of Keppel and a deputy minister, can be seen standing with an unknown man.
The MP revealed details of the night in a series of messages obtained exclusively by Daily Mail Australia that she exchanged with a woman she met that same night.
‘Hi Brittany, you may not remember who I am, but on Saturday night weekend, I was sitting in front of [Yeppoon Mexican restaurant] Zambrero is with my best friend when the man you were sitting with got into that fight,’ the woman wrote.
‘You, my best friend and I walked away from the situation and after everything that happened, we ended up seeing each other again.
“We asked if he was your boyfriend, to which you explained that he wasn’t and that you were just going to walk home.”
The woman then warns Lauga that “there is a video of you circulating out there,” although she has no idea who took it,” she said.
“When they showed me the video, I recognized what you were wearing and what the man was wearing, so I knew it was you immediately,” she told the MP.
‘The video is quite explicit. If you can remember what you were doing, then yes, someone recorded it somehow… and it seems to be spreading.’
After thanking him, Lauga replied: ‘Yes, I remember you asking me that. I don’t know the boy.
‘I went to the hospital after that. And he tested positive for MDMA but did not use drugs. He was mad.
The woman replies, ‘It’s okay, don’t worry, I just thought I’d let you know because I’d like to know too.’
‘I felt bad because my partner and I even said that you looked quite out of place that night. Are you sure he didn’t drug you in any way?
The videos were filmed outside The Strand Hotel in Yeppoon (pictured)
MP Brittany Lauga released a statement saying she was “drugged and sexually assaulted” after a video of her on the main street of Yeppoon in central Queensland circulated online.
It is understood MP Brittany Lauga attended Yeppoon’s ‘Swans Football Ladies Day’ on the afternoon before the night she was filmed after being ‘drugged and then sexually assaulted’.
In the exchange, the acquaintance who met Brittany near The Strand hotel said she had been shown the video purportedly showing the MP and that he remembered her and the man because of the clothes she had seen them in before.
Lauga is believed to have attended the Yeppoon Swans Ladies Football Day earlier on Saturday at the city’s Swan Park, a three-minute drive from The Strand hotel.
Following Daily Mail Australia’s exclusive story last week revealing the allegations without naming Brittany Lauga, the MP issued a statement over the weekend.
Lauga said in the statement that the previous Sunday ‘I went to Yeppoon police station and hospital, after being drugged and sexually assaulted.
‘Tests at the hospital confirmed the presence of drugs in my body that I did not take. This substance impacted me significantly.
‘A police investigation is underway. I have been contacted by other women who may have also been drugged in Yeppoon on Saturday night.
Queensland Premier Steven Miles issued his own statement saying “no one should have to go through what Britain is going through.”
‘My sole focus is on Brittany and her well-being. I told Brittany that we are here to support her, whatever she needs.
Brittany Lauga is a Keppel MP based in Yeppoon in central Queensland and it was in her hometown that she was filmed on the street by a stranger in the early hours of last Sunday.
A man believed to be Brittany Lauga’s current partner posted on Facebook asking people to respect the MP’s privacy and report and remove the video if they receive it.
“Out of respect for his privacy and in the interest of allowing the police to complete their investigation, it is not appropriate for me to comment further.”
Lauga said she later collapsed in front of her brother after telling him she thought she had been raped.
She added that a doctor told her that women were drugged in Yeppoon on a weekly basis.
A man believed to be Lauga’s current partner, Brent Wood, who reposted the MP’s statement on his Facebook page, posted a message asking people to delete the video.
“Please respect Brittany’s privacy at this difficult time,” he wrote. ‘No one should take advantage of another person who has been drugged.
“Whoever receives a video must report it and delete it.”
