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SAS soldiers ignored 'despicable crimes'

SAS soldiers who eventually testified against Ben Roberts-Smith were willing to turn a blind eye to alleged crimes due to a code of silence, a judge has heard.

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Ben Roberts-Smith was targeted after being awarded Victoria Cross, his barrister tells court

Closing submissions begin in the former SAS soldier’s long-running defamation trial against three newspapers

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'Someone is lying' in Roberts-Smith case

Closing submissions have begun in the defamation trial launched by Ben Roberts-Smith, describing a sustained media campaign to discredit an exceptional soldier.

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Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial begins hearing closing submissions after 100 days of testimony

Ben Roberts-Smith's barrister tells a judge the war veteran was an exceptional soldier who was subject to a sustained campaign from newspapers to create a belief he was a war criminal.

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Senior SAS officer tells defamation trial he ‘couldn’t speculate’ if Ben Roberts-Smith complicit in alleged Afghan murders

Person 81 tells court he did not observe any conduct by Roberts-Smith and two other soldiers that caused him suspicion they had murdered anyone

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Senior SAS officer contradicts previous witness in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial

Person 81, the troop commander during event central to the trial, says he was not informed of any insurgents killed at the time

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Senior SAS officer backs Ben Roberts-Smith

A senior SAS soldier is likely the final witness to be called by Ben Roberts-Smith and has backed his account that no men were found inside a secret tunnel.

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Former elite soldier rejects claims Ben Roberts-Smith kicked Afghan man over a cliff

A former elite soldier codenamed Person 11, called as a witness by Ben Roberts-Smith in his defamation case, rejects allegations the war veteran kicked an unarmed Afghan man over a cliff during a mission in 2012.

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Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial: witness expected to deny wrongdoing in killing of Afghan villager

Person 11 to give evidence on allegation by newspapers that Roberts-Smith kicked handcuffed man off cliff before ordering him shot

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Ben Roberts-Smith witness won fancy dress competition wearing white supremacist outfit, court told

A former elite soldier tells a Sydney court he wore a Ku Klux Klan costume to a fancy dress party at an unofficial soldier bar in Afghanistan "just for a laugh".

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First defamation trial witness called for Ben Roberts-Smith denies 'blooding' claims

A former elite soldier colleague of war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith tells a Sydney court he never used the term "blooding the rookie" or killed anyone taken prisoner in Afghanistan.

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Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial: SAS colleague felt threatened to testify by newspapers, court hears

Soldier refused to answer questions about one mission on grounds of self-incrimination on offence of ‘the most serious nature’

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Former SAS soldier tells Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial he did not want to testify in case

A former elite soldier tells a court he felt "threatened" that if he did not cooperate with newspapers being sued by Ben Roberts-Smith, he would instead be subpoenaed as a hostile witness.

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SAS soldier 'threatened' to give evidence

A fresh SAS witness in the defamation trial launched by Ben Roberts-Smith says he felt threatened to testify for the news outlets the war hero is suing.

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Soldiers supporting Ben Roberts-Smith accused of colluding over section of evidence in defamation trial

Lawyers for Roberts-Smith reject ‘completely baseless’ allegations against four witnesses set to give evidence for the SAS veteran

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Witness in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial denies he is a ‘liar and a fantasist’

Former SAS soldier defends himself against accusations from Arthur Moses SC of trying to justify his own failures as a soldier

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Ex-soldier tells court he didn't fabricate allegations against Ben Roberts-Smith to hide his own 'abysmal failure'

A former elite soldier who has claimed in court Ben Roberts-Smith bullied him denies making allegations against the war veteran to explain his own "abysmal failure" in the Defence Force.

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Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial: ‘I believed something unlawful had happened’, Andrew Hastie says

Assistant defence minister tells court he was troubled by ‘warrior culture’ in elite SAS regiment when he and Roberts-Smith were comrades in Afghanistan

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Federal MP Andrew Hastie tells court he 'pities' Ben Roberts-Smith

Federal MP Andrew Hastie tells a Sydney court he "pities" war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith, who is suing the publisher of several newspapers for defamation.

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SAS whistleblower could not ignore war crime allegation against Ben Roberts-Smith, court hears

Witness tells defamation trial he knew appearing on 60 Minutes in 2019 breached defence force rules but does not regret it

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Elite soldier denies bitter obsession with Ben Roberts-Smith's Victoria Cross

An elite soldier who spoke anonymously to Nine's 60 Minutes about allegations against Ben Roberts-Smith, denies being motivated by hatred and seeking to "blacken" the war veteran's name after he received the Victoria Cross.

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Witness becomes emotional in court after giving evidence in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial

A former soldier tells a Sydney court he saw Ben Roberts-Smith shoot an unarmed Afghan man in the back in an "exhibition execution" the decorated veteran "wanted people to see".

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Former SAS soldier tells court he witnessed Ben Roberts-Smith shoot man in back outside Taliban compound

A former elite soldier codenamed Person 24 says he saw the Victoria Cross recipient carry a man out of a compound in Afghanistan before shooting him.

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SAS 'rumour' mill, bullying claims and doubts over Victoria Cross dominate Ben Roberts-Smith trial

It's difficult to imagine two environments more different than a club of country wives and a military unit of elite soldiers, but evidence at the Ben Roberts-Smith trial this week says otherwise.

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SAS witness felt 'manipulated' by soldiers

A former SAS sergeant has told a court about an intimate dinner he had with Ben Roberts-Smith in which they discussed the soldiers who wanted to bring him down.

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