‘One word: justice,’ Australia’s most decorated soldier loses defamation case – video
Australia’s most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC, murdered or was complicit in the murder of multiple unarmed civilians while serving in the military in Afghanistan, a federal court judge has found. The ruling came after a landmark, year-long defamation case after three newspapers accused the former soldier of being a war criminal, a bully and a domestic violence perpetrator. The judgment is not a criminal finding of guilt, but a determination on the civil standard of the ‘balance of probabilities’
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