Bruce Lehrmann’s arrogant attitude toward the justice system can be summed up by an embarrassing video of him singing ‘I Fought the Law’ last year.
The best-known recording of the song was released by The Clash in 1979 and contains the lyrics “I needed money because I didn’t have any; I needed money because I didn’t have any.” I fought the law and the law won.’
Footage showed Lehrmann sitting on a kitchen stool and singing his own version of the jukebox favorite with a drink in hand.
‘I fought the law and…Bruce won!’ Lerhmann sang as he tapped his feet and pointed toward the camera.
The clip was apparently filmed off the coast of New South Wales last year and was first published by The Australian newspaper in November before Lehrmann’s case was heard in the Federal Court.
On Monday, Bruce Lehrmann was found to have raped Brittany Higgins (above) after declaring last year, “I fought the law and…Bruce won!”
Having lost his defamation lawsuit against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson on Monday, Lehrmann’s improvisation seems even more arrogant now.
Lehrmann, 28, unsuccessfully sued over Wilkinson’s interview on The Project with Brittany Higgins in which the former Liberal staffer accused her former colleague of raping her in Parliament in March 2019.
Lehrmann was not named during the February 2021 interview, but stated that he could be identified.
He was later accused of raping Mrs Higgins, which he has always denied, and his trial was abandoned due to jury misconduct.
Judge Michael Lee, who on Monday found that Lehrmann had raped Ms. Higgins under the civil court standard (the balance of probabilities), said that after Lehrmann’s criminal trial ended without a verdict, he had made a simple mistake .
“After escaping the lion’s den, Bruce Lehrmann made the mistake of going back for his hat,” he said.