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Ben Roberts-Smith, 42, packed on the PDA with girlfriend Sarah Matulin as the pair lunched in Barangaroo on Saturday. The soldier has spent the past week defending war crime allegations in court.
Australia's most decorated soldier is in the witness box in his Federal Court defamation trial against Nine newspapers which he says defamed the 42-year-old by accusing him of war crimes.
Australia's most decorated soldier has given a first-hand court room account of a fearsome battle in the Chora Valley as he fights allegations he is a war criminal
Mr Roberts-Smith is suing newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times over allegations he committed war crimes while serving with the SAS in Afghanistan..
21:59 EDT, 6 June 2021 Australia's most decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, was the victim of jealous former comrades who made false allegations of war crimes against him, his barrister has told the Federal Court. Bruce McClintock SC said his client's defamation case against Nine newspapers was about 'courage, devotion to duty self-sacrifice' and skill in soldiering on the one hand. 'On the other hand, it's a case about dishonest journalism, corrosive jealousy, cowardice and lies,' he told the Sydney courtroom. 'It's also about how a man with a deservedly high reputation for courage, skil...