Afghan with prosthetic leg ‘marched off’ by Ben Roberts-Smith before being found dead, court hears
SAS soldier tells defamation trial he heard a burst of gunfire and later walked past dead body lying outside Whiskey 108 compound
A disabled man found hiding in a tunnel during a raid on an Afghan village compound was led away in handcuffs by Ben Roberts-Smith and another soldier before he was later found dead from gunshot wounds outside, a serving member of the SAS told the federal court.
The testimony relates to a raid by Australian SAS troops on a compound called Whiskey 108, in the village of Kakarak in Uruzgan province on 12 April 2009, the site of two key allegations made by newspapers in their defence to Roberts-Smith's defamation claim: that he was involved in the execution of two unarmed men found in the compound.
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