SAS soldier cancels exercise and provides damaging evidence about Roberts-Smith
Growing evidence and dialogues about Roberts-Smith
What did he who is referred to as the fourteenth person say?
He denied all that was said about this special Air Service soldier "training" for damaging evidence relating to Mount Roberts-Smith before appearing inside the court witness stand in the veterans defamation case.
was gift on tours of Islamic State of Afghanistan with Mr Roberts-Smith in 2009 and 2012.
Person fourteen same the interpreter “stumbled” verbally and “didn’t relay” the order initially, damaging
before speech one thing in AN “Afghan dialect”. Through a long conversation with said started, then a member of the partner force shot the Afghan man, he said.
What was given to Mr. Roberts Smith?
Mr Roberts-Smith has antecedently given proof that he gave no such direction.
which AN Australian soldier shot AN Afghan man at shut vary with a “distinctive” machine gun,
referred to as the F89 Para Minimi, that he later saw within the possession of Mr Roberts-Smith. “Not many” troopers carried this lightweight weapon, he said.
The SAS soldier same there have been 3 Australian troopers round the Afghan man,
WHO appeared from his viewpoint like “a black object that was ... almost like a human” that was thrown to the bottom.
it had been solely on nearer review that he complete it had been AN Afghan man with a prosthetic leg, he said.
What did the person brought by the court say?
or similar, campaint vogue as mount Roberts-Smith”.
He same on Fri he “saw WHO had the Minimi” when the mission was completed, and it had been “Ben Roberts-Smith”.
Under interrogation by Mr Roberts-Smith’s lawyer, Arthur Moses, SC, Person fourteen denied on weekday that he had “rehearsed” his proof last week.
"Let us now say that what has been said on this assumption Hasan Man is to recommend that the paragraph that is before you just say no other than you accept that,
[Mr. Roberts-Smith] was holding is who you are telling you to detect the creation of noise with respect to the dark object?"Mr. Moses himself.
“You don’t apprehend, do you?” Mr Moses same. “No,” Person fourteen replied.
"What was said about this thing is true, "he said,
noting that from the statements made before us, he was told repeatedly that I thought he had a modern F-89."Is this true of your opinion
“Not black?” Mr Moses same. Do you think in your opinion that he might be the same black person who has the skull on his hat,
and has been serving for 14 years, is that in your opinion a dark person. He denied creating up or lying concerning elements of his proof.
What Mr. Musa?
as well as by him. Asked on Fri if Mr Roberts-Smith ever drank from it, Person fourteen said: “Not that I’m awake to.”
Person fourteen was asked by Mr Moses on Fri whether or not he had punched a feminine soldier from the US,
AN allegation he rejected as “absurd”. He insisted it had been he WHO had been “towelled up” throughout an occurrence in 2012.
smitten multiple times within the face and also the head and squirrel grabbed, [she] grabbed my testicles, in what was very AN unmotivated attack”.
Mr Moses place it to Person fourteen that he was “agitated” and “upset” that Mr Roberts-Smith “intervened to assist the feminine soldier”.
” Person fourteen same. "Out of all he has received the highest high rating and positive rating from the event that was not happening.”
Mr Roberts-Smith is suing for defamation over a series of reports reports in 2018 that he says portray him as a offender.
Person fourteen is that the second member of the SAS to convey proof for The Age,
The state capital Morning Herald and also the Canberra Times because the news shops obtain to defend the defamation suit.
currently beneath separate possession, square measure seeking to have confidence a defence of truth.
once they can't be killed beneath the principles of engagement.
Mr Roberts-Smith maintains any killings in Islamic State of Afghanistan were administered lawfully within the heat of battle. The hearing continues.
