Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s decorated war hero and Victoria Cross recipient, has lost his high profile defamation case against three Australian newspapers following a Federal Court judgment that found him guilty of war crimes.
Roberts-Smith claimed that The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times, published a series of defamatory articles that wrongly accused him of committing war crimes in Afghanistan, for bullying Special Air Services (SAS) soldiers, and for assaulting his mistress.
