Patrol commander denies colluding on evidence in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial

Person 5, who was patrol commander at Whiskey 108 raid, tells court two men were lawfully killed in combat outside compound

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Ben Roberts-Smith's patrol commander on a controversial SAS mission in an Afghan village has defended his evidence in court as truthful, after being accused of colluding with Roberts-Smith to cover up the murder of two prisoners.

The cross-examination of a retired SAS patrol commander, anonymised before the court as Person 5, focused on a mission raiding a compound known as Whiskey 108, in the Uruzgan village of Kakarak in southern Afghanistan, on Easter Sunday in 2009.

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