The judgment in the defamation trial of the century is about to be delivered.
, Australia’s most decorated living soldier, Victoria Cross and Medal of Gallantry winner Ben Roberts-Smith, was seeking to clear his reputation.
The main judgment – whether the newspapers defamed the war hero, or if he is, in fact, a war criminal – will be handed down today. , nor that the leg was souvenired by another soldier and used as a drinking vessel called “Das Boot” at the SAS base. Roberts-Smith described this during the trial as gallows humour.The newspapers alleged that Roberts-Smith directed a soldier to kill an Afghan prisoner in 2012 in another blooding incident.
To meet the substantial truth test, the media called 26 first-hand witnesses to give evidence and face cross-examination. Roberts-Smith called 15 witnesses to refute them. Many of the witnesses were soldiers or ex-soldiers, but there were also three Afghan villagers who gave evidence via video link from Kabul, amid the Taliban advance in August 2021. All three said they had witnessed the kick at Darwan. At one point the link went down when the Kabul law office’s generator ran out of diesel.
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