EXCLUSIVE Bruce Lehrmann's last chance saloon: We found the despised party boy hiding at the end of the Earth - and he's shacked up with a single mum who has a LOT to say to the local haters
A week-long investigation by Daily Mail Australia senior reporter Karleigh Smith found the disgraced former political staffer - found, on the balance of probabilities, by a civil court to have raped his ex-colleague Brittany Higgins six years ago - living in Port Huon (pop. 492) as he awaits his fate in a string of legal matters.
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