An SAS whistleblower who spoke to the media about a war crime allegedly committed by Ben Roberts-Smith has told the federal court he knew he was defying orders in doing so, but felt he couldn’t walk past such an “egregious” allegation.
A soldier anonymised as Person 7, a still-serving SAS veteran of multiple deployments to Afghanistan with the SAS, spent a second day under cross-examination in Roberts-Smith’s defamation case on Thursday. He was questioned extensively about his service alongside Roberts-Smith and their fractious relationship.
