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The war veteran’s high-stakes defamation appeal drew to a close on Friday, as his barrister urged a court to overturn a decision finding he was complicit in four murders.
The witnesses – who detailed the killing of villager Ali Jan by Australian soldier Ben Roberts-Smith – should be believed, despite efforts by the disgraced soldier’s legal team to undermine their credibility, a court has been told.
The barrister acting for the newspapers has told the former soldier’s appeal there were only minor differences in the evidence of witnesses about the death of an Afghan prisoner with a prosthetic leg.
The war veteran’s bid to overturn a decision dismissing his defamation suit should be rejected, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald have told an appeal court.
Roberts-Smith, 45, is seeking to overturn June defamation trial judgment that found he engaged in war crimes in Afghanistan