Ben Roberts-Smith may have committed criminal offence, judge in defamation trial finds

Ben Roberts-Smith sued The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Canberra Times and three journalists in the Federal Court.

War veteran Ben Roberts-Smith may have committed a criminal offence by sending threatening letters to a former SAS colleague, a Federal Court judge has found.

The war veteran's case against three newspapers was dismissed last week, but the judge only read out a summarised version of his decision.