SAS soldier denies colluding with Ben Roberts-Smith on evidence, defamation trial hears
by Ben Doherty from on (#5YWYS)
Roberts-Smith's former comrade admits failing to provide to court an email with marked-up pictures of Afghanistan compound, despite subpoena
A serving SAS soldier has denied in court that emails between him and Ben Roberts-Smith - including marked-up pictures of a compound in Afghanistan - demonstrated they had colluded on their evidence about a mission, during which the newspaper defendants allege two civilians were murdered.
The soldier, anonymised in the federal court as Person 29, is a former comrade of Roberts-Smith and the godfather to one of his children.
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