The former commando’s barrister has urged the Federal Court to reject the ABC’s public interest defence and award damages in his defamation case.
Former commando Heston Russell’s barrister has accused the ABC of “self-delusion and utter hypocrisy” in defending his defamation suit over articles suggesting he was involved in executing an unarmed prisoner in Afghanistan.
“There’s one ship, call it Heston, that is gliding over the seas of legal principle and the ocean of actual evidence ... and then there’s the ABC ship, that is stuck on the rocks of complete self-delusion, utter hypocrisy and a misstatement of the relevant law,” she said.has previously ABC investigations journalist Mark Willacy denied during the trial that he intended to point the finger at November platoon, saying that he believed “it was more likely to be them [than Oscar platoon], but I had no evidence of that”.Willacy agreed during his evidence that Josh did not say the 2nd commando regiment was responsible for the alleged killing.
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