Soldiers accused of colluding over murder allegation evidence supporting Ben Roberts-Smith in defamation trial
Four SAS witnesses to be called byin his war crimes defamation trial have been accused of colluding in their evidence concerning a murder allegation against the SAS veteran before the federal court.
The newspapers’ application, Owens told Justice Wendy Abraham on Friday, “is really as simple as saying five witnesses have had outlines of evidence filed on their behalf, each of which contains a highly specific and false account of a material matter”. Owens said it was “utterly inconceivable that five people would make the same, precise, demonstrably false error” by innocent, coincidental mistake.
During the interrogation of the prisoner, a member of Roberts-Smith’s patrol kicked at a discoloured area of the compound’s mud wall that appeared to be a recently constructed false wall.According to the, Roberts-Smith saw the weapons fall out and turned to his interpreter, telling the interpreter to instruct Person 12 “shoot him or get his men to do it, or I’ll do it”.
In court on Friday, Arthur Moses SC, for Roberts-Smith, said the newspapers’ allegation of collusion was scandalous, describing the arguments before court as “completely baseless” and “an attempt to prejudice the court and the public” against the witnesses.
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