Second SAS member tells Ben Roberts-Smith trial he saw Australian soldier shoot unarmed man in Afghanistan

A serving SAS member has told court he saw an Australian soldier, wearing distinctive camouflage facepaint worn by the Ben Roberts-Smith’s five-man patrol, throw an Afghan man to the ground before a machine-gun was fired. Photograph: Flavio Brancaleone/AAP

A second serving member of the SAS has told a court he saw an Australian soldier shoot an unarmed disabled man during a 2009 raid in Afghanistan.

The soldier, anonymised before the court as Person 14, said he saw an Australian soldier, wearing distinctive camouflage facepaint worn by the Roberts-Smith’s five-man patrol, throw an Afghan man to the ground.