Witness called by Ben Roberts-Smith in defamation trial investigated for alleged war crime, court hears

Soldier has told court allegation he unlawfully killed a man on SAS raid on Darwan village is a lie'

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A soldier witness called by Ben Roberts-Smith in his defamation trial has told the court he is separately being investigated for an alleged war crime committed at Darwan, during the same raid on which Roberts-Smith is accused of kicking a handcuffed prisoner off a cliff.

Person 35 spent his third day in the witness box on Friday, and was cross-examined over the death of a man called Haji Nazar Gul, during an Australian SAS raid on the village of Darwan, in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, on 11 September 2012.

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