Ben Roberts-Smith loses defamation case, with judge finding former SAS soldier committed war crimes
by Ben Doherty in Sydney from on (#6C0CJ)
Justice Anthony Besanko found newspapers established substantial or contextual truth of allegations of murders of unarmed civilians in Afghanistan
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Ben Roberts-Smith VC, Australia's most decorated living soldier, murdered unarmed civilians while serving in the military in Afghanistan, a federal court judge has found.
Sitting in Sydney, Justice Anthony Besanko found that on the balance of probabilities, Roberts-Smith kicked a handcuffed prisoner off a cliff in Darwan in 2012 before ordering a subordinate Australian soldier to shoot the injured man dead.
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