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Soldier breaks down in Roberts-Smith trial

An SAS witness has broken down describing the negative effect Ben Roberts-Smith had on a fellow soldier who served in Afghanistan as "heartbreaking".

AAP · Mar 14, 2022

Former SAS soldier tells court he watched Ben Roberts-Smith kill unarmed disabled Afghan man

Witness tells defamation trial he saw Roberts-Smith throw a man to the ground and shoot him in the back with a machine gun outside Whiskey 108 compound

The Guardian - AU · Mar 14, 2022

Former SAS soldier tells court he witnessed Ben Roberts-Smith shoot man in back outside Taliban compound

A former elite soldier codenamed Person 24 says he saw the Victoria Cross recipient carry a man out of a compound in Afghanistan before shooting him.

ABC News · Mar 14, 2022

Ben Roberts-Smith was a 'bully' and VC was given in error, former SAS patrol commander tells court

A more thorough investigation process should have preceded the awarding of the prestigious Victoria Cross to Ben Roberts-Smith, a former army commander tells the NSW Federal Court

ABC News · Mar 11, 2022

Secrecy surrounding Roberts-Smith's VC

A former special forces soldier has told the Federal Court that Ben Roberts-Smith did not deserve the Victoria Cross that was organised "in secrecy".

AAP · Mar 10, 2022

SAS witness 'grabbed' tunnel prisoner

War veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has been contradicted by another former SAS soldier who says he helped an elderly Afghan prisoner out from a secret tunnel.

AAP · Mar 9, 2022

Afghan with prosthetic leg ‘marched off’ by Ben Roberts-Smith before being found dead, court hears

SAS soldier tells defamation trial he heard a burst of gunfire and later walked past dead body lying outside Whiskey 108 compound

The Guardian - AU · Mar 9, 2022

Another SAS witness saw tunnel prisoners

Another SAS soldier says he witnessed two Afghan prisoners emerge from a tunnel and one with a prosthetic leg that was led away by Ben Roberts-Smith and killed.

AAP · Mar 8, 2022

'Toxic' SAS was like 'country wives club' and 'rumour mill', Ben Roberts-Smith trial hears

An elite soldier giving evidence in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial denies fuelling a "rumour mill" within the SAS about the death of an Afghan man with a prosthetic leg.

ABC News · Mar 8, 2022

Witness says Roberts-Smith was panicked

A former squadmate of Ben Roberts-Smith says he heard the war veteran panicked over questions about a drone recording an alleged execution, a court has heard.

AAP · Mar 7, 2022