Former soldier appeared ‘intoxicated, acting in a belligerent manner’ when confronted with a search warrant, court documents say
Police feared one of Ben Roberts-Smith’s SAS witnesses in his defamation case was going to destroy evidence on his phone when they confronted him with a search warrant in a city hotel late on Tuesday night.
Australian Federal Police officers approached the man at a city centre hotel in Sydney just after 11pm Tuesday night, informing him they were executing a search warrant.“The accused attempted to enter the lift to leave the hotel and refused to hand over his mobile phone. When prevented from entering the lift, to prevent the destruction of evidence, being the mobile phone in his possession, the accused tensed up, clenched his fist, and shoved police to the body, constituting an assault.
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