Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial: SAS colleague felt ‘threatened to testify’ by newspapers, court hears
by Ben Doherty from World news | The Guardian on (#5Y1VJ)
Soldier refused to answer questions about one mission on grounds of self-incrimination on offence of the most serious nature'
An SAS soldier who refused to answer questions about an alleged unlawful killing in Afghanistan has told the federal court he felt threatened to testify by the newspapers being sued by Ben Roberts-Smith.
The soldier, anonymised before the court as Person 56, refused to answer questions about a 2012 mission to Fasil, where, it has previously been alleged, he and Roberts-Smith were responsible for the unlawful killing of two Afghan men who had been taken prisoner from a vehicle.
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