Ben Roberts-Smith: SAS soldier tells defamation trial he refused to be interviewed by AFP about Afghanistan

Witness denies assertions from newspapers that he was motivated to lie to derail an investigation into possible war crimes

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An SAS soldier alleged by three newspapers to have murdered a handcuffed Afghan civilian in 2012 has told the federal court he twice refused to be interviewed by the Australian federal police regarding his actions in Afghanistan.

The retired soldier, anonymised as Person 11, on Wednesday denied assertions in court from the newspapers’ lawyers that he was lying in his evidence to derail an AFP investigation into possible war crimes.

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