Ben Roberts-Smith tells defamation trial that Victoria Cross ‘put a target on my back’

The former SAS soldier says attitudes of other soldiers changed after he received his military honour and he was white-anted'

The Victoria Cross was a cross to bear, Ben Roberts-Smith has told his defamation trial, saying it put a target on his back" for other soldiers jealous of his medal.

In the witness box for a second straight day, the former corporal detailed at length his missions in Afghanistan, and the tensions within SAS as soldiers were sent back for repeated deployments in a long, grinding and costly war.