SYDNEY (AP) Australia’s most decorated living war veteran unlawfully killed prisoners and committed other war crimes in Afghanistan, a judge ruled Thursday in dismissing the claims by Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith that he was defamed by media.
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The Sydney Morning Herald have obtained two photographs that show Roberts-Smith, Australia’s country’s most decorated living soldier, posing with the prosthetic leg which was used as a novelty drinking vessel.
Australian SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith carousing with US soldiers and a prosthetic leg taken from an Afghan man whom he killed. The leg was used as a beer drinking vessel at the SAS base in Afghanistan and was known as Das Boot . The photographs appear at odds with claims made by Roberts-Smith’s lawyer in the Federal Court last year that the war hero was utterly disgusted by the use of the leg as a drinking vessel. Lawyer Bruce McClintock stressed Roberts-Smith “never drank from that thing … Because he thought it was disgusting to souvenir a body part, albeit an artificial one from someone who had been killed in action.