Soldier saw Ben Roberts-Smith machine-gun unarmed Afghan with prosthetic leg to death, court told

Defamation trial hears SAS soldier's testimony will be in direct contradiction to the Victoria Cross recipient's evidence

An SAS soldier witnessed Ben Roberts-Smith machine-gun an unarmed prisoner with a prosthetic leg to death, in direct contradiction of the Victoria Cross recipient's evidence, a court has been told.

The soldier - anonymised on the witness list as Person 14 - told Roberts-Smith during a clandestine meeting in 2018 he had seen him shoot the unarmed man in a village called Kakarak in Uruzgan province in 2009, the federal court heard on Thursday.