Claim about leg pics in Roberts-Smith case Lawyers for Ben Roberts-Smith have made a big claim in court regarding photos of soldiers drinking from a Taliban’s prosthetic leg in a bar in Afghanistan.
News by PERRY DUFFIN 2nd Jun 2021 1:53 PM | Updated: 2:56 PM Lawyers for Ben Roberts-Smith have claimed in court hundreds of images of soldiers drinking out of a prosthetic leg were leaked to the press by the decorated soldier s ex-wife. The high stakes defamation trial of Mr Roberts-Smith will begin next week as he sues Nine newspapers over stories alleging war crimes in Afghanistan. Nine will argue a truth defence.