Ben Roberts-Smith was either the architect or knowing beneficiary of a lie he and four of his SAS witnesses told to cover up an alleged murder of an Afghan prisoner, a judge has been told. 9News
A key issue throughout the defamation trial he launched has focused on the placement of a partner force soldier dubbed Person 12 during an October 2012 mission in Khaz Oruzgan.
Barrister Nicholas Owens SC, in his closing address to the Federal Court on Wednesday, said their lie was historical. "Person 14 has stood firm against the pressure that was applied to him by Mr Roberts-Smith," Owens said.READ MORE:The Canberra Times And it was improbable that five independent witnesses had innocently mistaken the same event, he said."It doesn't matter where the ultimate source came from ... he stood to gain from it and was responsible to call those witnesses."
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