Ben Roberts-Smith defamation witness backs war veteran’s version of events in Afghanistan mission

Former SAS soldier anonymised as Person 35 tells federal court there was no one inside the tunnel at Whiskey 108

There were no people in the tunnel at Whiskey 108, a former SAS soldier has told the federal court, backing Ben Roberts-Smith’s version of events of a fiercely contested Australian military mission in Afghanistan.

The crude, hand-dug tunnel, hidden inside a compound known as Whiskey 108 in the village of Kakarak, in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province, has become a critical contention in Roberts-Smith’s high-profile defamation trial.

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