Former Special Air Service Regiment solider Ben Roberts-Smith has been found by the Federal Court to have murdered unarmed Afghans, and a major defamation action he launched against newspapers who published stories about his conduct has been dismissed.
Former Special Air Service Regiment solider Ben Roberts-Smith has been found by the Federal Court to have murdered unarmed Afghans, and a major defamation action he launched against newspapers who published stories about his conduct has been dismissedIn the highest profile defamation
case in Australia’s history - essentially running as a proxy war crimes trial - Justice Anthony Besanko considered 110 days of evidence and 41 witnesses which took more than a year to get through after being interrupted by COVID-19 lockdowns in 2021. The hearing finished in late July 2022.
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