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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Ben Roberts-Smith machine-gunned an Afghan prisoner to death as an “exhibition execution”, a comrade has told the federal court during cross-examination.
“He wanted people to see he was going to kill someone out there in front of everyone,” the former SAS soldier, anonymised before court as Person 24, testified during a combative, and at times emotional, second day in the witness box.
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