Lawyers for Ben Roberts-Smith call for explanation over ‘buried’ material

The Victoria Cross recipient denies the allegations and says the reports are defamatory because they portray him as a criminal.

During an administrative hearing on Thursday, lawyers for Mr Roberts-Smith and the media engaged in a cryptic argument over who had possession of material that allegedly includesBen Roberts-Smith and the prosthetic leg of a dead Taliban fighter.this month reported Mr Roberts-Smith kept the classified material on USB drives stored in a children’s lunchbox and buried in the backyard of his home on the Sunshine Coast hinterland.

So you target a soldier who is trained to kill other human beings for a stupid stunt. You want him to kill others and then behave like a gentleman after hours? Are we all expecting too much maybe? You really think people can kill others without fucking up their brain and life!

slackbastard Cos that's the real issue here... ffs ben. Own your shit.

Bet that tasted sweet...

So the news outlets are the ones in the wrong here

slackbastard Objection! You shouldn't have found the evidence, we covered it up and it is therefore inadmissible. Bird law 101.

War criminal regardless of legal representation...

You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to work out where both the lunchbox & recordings have come from. Surely they would know this & that a witness due to give evidence can verify this. Rekt.

The man is a disgrace. The act was appalling. Sueing news organisations that published the photo just shows how deep this culture of cover up and secrecy goes... And we have the gall to point to other countries and scream 'cover up'.

The standard you walk past ... Hey Angus.

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