Australia’s most decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, loses his defamation case against Nine Newspapers which published a series of articles in 2018 which accused him of unlawful killings in Afghanistan.
After losing his defamation trial, the fallen war hero faces the prospect of a special investigator with a wealth of evidence that can be used against him in a criminal prosecution.
The judge in Roberts-Smith’s defamation case found he committed murder. Will Australia remember the names of those Afghans whose deaths sat at the centre of testimony?