A judge said Ben Roberts-Smith’s, who has the Victoria Cross, was “not an honest and reliable witness”. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SYDNEY - Australia’s most decorated soldier was “complicit in and responsible for the murder” of three Afghan men on deployment, a judge said, elaborating on his findings against the former Special Air Service Regiment special forces corporal in a blockbuster defamation trial.
Australian civil courts require a lower threshold to prove accusations than criminal courts do. Mr Roberts-Smith has not been charged with any offences and has not commented since the ruling. His lawyer was not immediately available for comment. Mr Roberts-Smith has since quit his job as a television executive.
Mr Roberts-Smith was accused by the newspapers of ordering a lower-ranking soldier to shoot dead an “older Afghan male”, identified in the case as EKIA56, to “blood the rookie”, he said. Mr Besanko found Mr Roberts-Smith engaged in a “campaign of bullying” against another Australian soldier, including what he called a “death threat” when Mr Roberts-Smith said: “If your performance doesn’t improve on our next patrol, you’re going to get a bullet in the back of the head.”
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