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Ben Roberts-Smith: Top soldier loses war crimes defamation case appeal

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Ben Roberts-Smith lost an appeal against a landmark defamation judgement which found he committed war crimes.

A judge in 2023 ruled that news articles alleging the Victoria Cross recipient had murdered four unarmed Afghans were true.

A panel of three Federal Court judges on Friday upheld the original verdict.

The former special forces corporal sued three Australian newspapers over a series of articles alleging serious misconduct while he was deployed in Afghanistan .

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English

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