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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Ben Doherty in Sydney

Ben Roberts-Smith loses defamation case, with judge finding former SAS soldier committed war crimes

Ben Roberts-Smith VC, Australia’s most decorated living soldier, murdered unarmed civilians while serving in the military in Afghanistan, a federal court judge has found.

Sitting in Sydney, Justice Anthony Besanko found that on the balance of probabilities, Roberts-Smith kicked a handcuffed prisoner off a cliff in Darwan in 2012 before ordering a subordinate Australian soldier to shoot the injured man dead.

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