Ben Roberts-Smith ran an “aggressive intimidation campaign” against witnesses giving evidence to a government war crimes inquiry, a former comrade has told the federal court.
The soldier, anonymised before the court as Person 7, also gave evidence Roberts-Smith repeatedly punched and kicked a “terrified” unarmed Afghan prisoner “who posed no threat whatsoever”; bullied other Australian soldiers; and made threats he would “choke a man to death with my bare hands”.
