Woman threatened by stranger with photos of her and Ben Roberts-Smith having sex, court told

Woman who had affair with former SAS soldier tells defamation trial she was simultaneously in love and afraid of him'

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A woman who had an affair with Ben Roberts-Smith has told a court she was confronted by a stranger who showed her photos of her having sex with Roberts-Smith in a hotel room, and threatened to make them public if she didn't confess the affair to the veteran's wife.

The woman, anonymised before the court as Person 17, gave evidence about the torrid end of her affair with Roberts-Smith to the federal court Wednesday morning, saying she was scared" he would seek payback".