Senior SAS officer contradicts previous witness in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial

Person 81, the troop commander during event central to the trial, says he was not informed of any insurgents killed at the time

The most senior SAS officer called to give evidence by Ben Roberts-Smith in his defamation trial has contradicted another of Roberts-Smith's key witnesses over the death of a man during a 2009 raid on an Afghan compound.

Person 81, a serving senior officer in the SAS and a 25-year veteran of the military, is the final of 40 witnesses called in Roberts-Smith's year-long defamation trial.