Saturday, December 14, 2019

Roberts-Smith war crimes defamation case: ‘witness wasn’t there’


……Lawyers for Mr Roberts-Smith told the Federal Court that one of the conspirators in the alleged 2012 murder of Ali Jan was not on the SAS-led mission to the village of Darwan on September 11, 2012 — the date when the murder is said to have taken place.
The claim, if proven, is a major blow to The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times, which are being sued by Mr Roberts-Smith over a series of 2018 articles that he claims portray him as a war criminal, a bully and an abuser of women……

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