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Ben Roberts-Smith and four key witnesses were not honest or reliable, judge says in full verdict

Justice Anthony Besanko’s 736-page judgment has been released after judge last week dismissed defamation case in favour of Nine newspapers and reporter

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Ben Roberts-Smith: a war hero’s reputation at stake in Australia’s defamation ‘trial of the century’

Extraordinary evidence has been heard over 99 days of hearings, at a cost of A$25m, as the Victoria Cross recipient sues three newspapers over allegations he says falsely portray him as a war criminal for actions in Afghanistan

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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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Final witness in Ben-Roberts-Smith trial says he has no knowledge of how two Afghan men died

The final witness in the long-running Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case, a senior SAS member, says he never had any personal knowledge of how two Afghan men were killed in a Taliban compound.

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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

The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation trial hears conflicting evidence over Afghan deaths

Troops who were present at Whiskey 108 compound split over whether two men shot dead were murdered or were insurgents killed lawfully

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Witness for Ben Roberts-Smith denies emails show the pair colluded to make sure their evidence aligned

A former SAS patrol commander denies colluding with Ben Roberts-Smith after the pair exchanged emails before they were due to submit outlines of their evidence for the war veteran's defamation trial.

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Ben Roberts-Smith defamation witness backs war veteran’s version of events in Afghanistan mission

Former SAS soldier anonymised as Person 35 tells federal court there was no one inside the tunnel at Whiskey 108

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Patrol commander denies colluding on evidence in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial

Person 5, who was patrol commander at Whiskey 108 raid, tells court two men were lawfully killed in combat outside compound

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Witness tells Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial no people found in tunnel during 2009 raid on Afghan compound

Testimony of ex-SAS commander, called by Roberts-Smith, contradicts previous witnesses called by newspapers about Whiskey 108 operation

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Ben Roberts-Smith machine-gunned Afghan with prosthetic leg as ‘an exhibition execution’, witness alleges

Roberts-Smith ‘wanted people to see he was going to kill someone’, former comrade tells defamation trial during cross-examination

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Former SAS soldier tells court he watched Ben Roberts-Smith kill unarmed disabled Afghan man

Witness tells defamation trial he saw Roberts-Smith throw a man to the ground and shoot him in the back with a machine gun outside Whiskey 108 compound

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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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Tunnel vision: why the Ben Roberts-Smith trial could turn on a tiny secret crawlspace in an Afghan village

For all the complexity of this defamation case, a simple point will be a crucial one: were there any people in the tunnel at Whiskey 108?

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Afghan with prosthetic leg ‘marched off’ by Ben Roberts-Smith before being found dead, court hears

SAS soldier tells defamation trial he heard a burst of gunfire and later walked past dead body lying outside Whiskey 108 compound

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Witness in Ben Roberts-Smith trial objects to questions about alleged murder of Afghan civilian

Former SAS soldier tells defamation trial he objects to questions about death at Whiskey 108 compound on the basis of ‘self-incrimination’

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Ben Roberts-Smith: how the soldier’s newspaper defamation suit went from battlefield to backyard

This has been a brutal and uncompromising trial – and it still has many weeks to run

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Ben Roberts-Smith trial: soldier tells court at least two men pulled from tunnel in Afghanistan compound

Events at the compound on 12 April, 2009 have emerged as central to the defamation trial brought by Roberts-Smith

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Ben Roberts-Smith executed unarmed Afghan civilian on ground, serving SAS soldier tells court

SAS soldier also tells court he saw Ben Roberts-Smith order another soldier to shoot a man during a raid on a compound in Afghanistan as Roberts-Smith denies both claims

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