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Miklos Bolza

'One interpretation': Roberts-Smith judge queries death

There is evidence supporting media reports about Ben Robert-Smith's alleged unlawful killings. (Flavio Brancaleone/AAP PHOTOS)

It is difficult to understand how an elderly Afghan man died during an SAS raid if not through unlawful execution, a judge overseeing Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation appeal says.

During a second week of the Victoria Cross recipient's wide-ranging bid to overturn his landmark defamation loss, the court was told arguments in support of media reports that an old man found in a tunnel and handcuffed had then been unlawfully killed.

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