A damning tattoo depicting Bruce Lehrmann that went viral online is now believed to belong to a former Western Australian police officer, according to Daily Mail.
The shocking photo features a portrait of Lerhmann’s face emblazoned across a gentleman’s arm, with the words “Real Victim” and “Survivor” framing the sketch.
The ink job is thought to be a recreation of a photograph taken outside the ACT Supreme Court in 2022.
Speculation online that the tatt was a fake prompted Lehrmann’s former media advisor John Macgowan to reveal to X on Monday the controversial piece was entirely genuine.
“This can’t be real, can it?” one user asked.
Macgowan replied: “Not only is it real, I found the guy who got it and he’s a cop.”
The online revelation came an hour after Federal Court Justice Michael Lee’s findings were handed down to Lerhmann following his defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson.
Justice Lee found on the balance of probabilities Lehrmann had raped Brittan Higgins in Parliament House in March 2019.
While Lehrmann was no doubt the biggest loser in the trial, a close second might be his most loyal supporter who’s now burdened with a lifelong reminder of his fallen idol.
Social platform Reddit was rife with conjecture surrounding the tattoo, as users questioned the authenticity and intent behind it.
“Surely this is an AI tattoo not real. Who would be so stupid,” one user wrote.
“I can believe someone is malignant enough to get the tattoo. I’m struggling to imagine the tattoo artist who would do the piece,” another said.
Nothing spells loyalty like a tattoo gun to the skin.
And if blood is thicker than water, perhaps ink is almost as thick.