Judge finds evidence of criminal behavior by Australian soldier Ben Roberts-Smith.

Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia's most decorated soldier, was "complicit in and responsible for the murder" of three Afghan men on deployment, according to a judge in one of the country's longest-running defamation trials. Roberts-Smith had sued three Australian newspapers for defamation after they reported he had murdered Afghans during multiple deployments to the country from 2006 to 2012. The judge ruled that the media outlets had proven substantial truth in their reporting, including that in 2012 Roberts-Smith kicked an unarmed and handcuffed Afghan man off a cliff and then ordered two soldiers in his unit to kill the badly injured man.