Bruce Lehrmann’s stubborn attitude toward the legal system can be summed up in a chilling video of him singing “I Fought the Law” last year.
The best-known recording of the song was released in 1979 by The Clash and contains the lyrics ‘I needed money because I didn’t have any; I fought the law and the law won.”
Footage showed Lehrmann sitting on a stool in a kitchen, dishing out his own version of the jukebox favorite with a drink in his hand.
“I fought the law and… Bruce won!” Lerhmann sang while tapping his feet and pointing at the camera.
The clip was apparently filmed on the coast of New Zealand last year and was first published by the Australian newspaper in November before Lehrmann’s Federal Court case was heard.
Bruce Lehrmann was caught raping Brittany Higgins (above) on Monday after declaring last year, “I fought the law and…Bruce won!”
After losing his defamation action against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson on Monday, Lehrmann’s ad-libbing now appears even more arrogant.
Lehrmann, 28, unsuccessfully filed a lawsuit over Wilkinson’s interview on The Project with Brittany Higgins, in which the former Liberal staffer accused her former colleague of raping her at Parliament House in March 2019.
Lehrmann was not named during the February 2021 interview but claimed he could be identified.
He was later accused of raping Ms Higgins, which he has always denied, and his trial was abandoned due to juror misconduct.
Judge Michael Lee, who found on Monday that Lehrmann had raped Ms Higgins based on the civil law – the balance of probabilities, said that after Lehrmann’s criminal trial ended without a verdict, he had made a simple mistake.
“After escaping from the lion’s den, Bruce Lehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat,” he said.