Ben Roberts-Smith trial: key witness for soldier in defamation case arrested by AFP
by Ben Doherty from World news | The Guardian on (#5YKJN)
Witness charged with obstructing, hindering and resisting a commonwealth official
One of the witnesses in Ben Roberts-Smith's war crimes defamation trial has been arrested and charged over the alleged assault of a police officer.
The former soldier, whose identity has been suppressed, faces two charges: obstruct, hinder, intimidate, or resist a commonwealth official; and cause harm to a commonwealth judicial or law officer.
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