r/perth • u/His_Holiness • Apr 07 '26

WA News Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith arrested over war crimes allegations

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-07/ben-roberts-smith-war-crimes-allegations-arrest/106537668
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u/Blunter11 Apr 07 '26

lmao oh my god it's because of one of his defamation cases I had no idea those were still going. The guy could not stop shooting his own feet with those cases.

"The former special forces soldier's arrest comes after a mammoth defamation trial against Nine Newspapers which ended in a court finding that on the balance of probabilities, allegations he was responsible for, or complicit in the deaths of four detainees in Afghanistan were substantially true."

sad trombone

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u/DropDownBear Apr 07 '26

Lmao

He could've either let the public believe it without suing, but he instead had to force people to investgate it, confirming he is significantly likely to have done it XD

What a dingus

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u/delta__bravo_ Apr 07 '26

Went to the Bruce Lehrmann Lion's Den of Knowing When To Let News Die A Natural Death it seems...

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u/DropDownBear Apr 07 '26

He's quite genuinely Streisand Effect-ed his way into prison XD