Captive Afghan teenage boy allegedly shot in the head, Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation trial hears
by Ben Doherty from World news | The Guardian on (#5Z4XV)
Former comrade called as witness by Roberts-Smith denies seeing teen alive or recognising photo of dead body
A missing photograph of a prisoner, which should have been marked GB2", has dominated evidence in Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation trial on Thursday, with allegations before the federal court that GB2" was a terrified captive teenage boy shot in the head by Roberts-Smith.
A retired SAS comrade, anonymised before the court as Person 11, has been called by Roberts-Smith to give evidence in his defamation action against three Australian newspapers, whom he says defamed him in a series of reports that alleged he committed war crimes, including murder.
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