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[Link] Witness tells court he killed a Taliban fighter credited to Ben Roberts-Smith in Victoria Cross award
Read: 3/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
A soldier who fought alongside Ben Roberts-Smith at the battle of Tizak where Roberts-Smith won his Victoria Cross has told the federal court he killed one of the Taliban machine gunners credited to Roberts-Smith on his official VC citation.
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[Link] Roberts-Smith pressured me to lie about his affair, estranged wife tells court
Read: 14/2/2022 www.smh.com.au
The estranged wife of war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has told the Federal Court she discovered her husband was having an affair when his girlfriend turned up at the couple’s Sunshine Coast home with a black eye and told her she had been pregnant with his child.
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