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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1449/
- Published: 2026-04-07T18:30:17.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-07T18:30:16.000Z
- Description: The Victoria Cross recipient was arrested at Sydney Airport’s domestic terminal after a flight from Brisbane on Tuesday morning.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> One of Australia’s most decorated soldiers, Ben Roberts-Smith, has been arrested and was expected to be charged with five counts of the war crime of murder.  
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> The Victoria Cross recipient was arrested at Sydney Airport’s domestic terminal after a flight from Brisbane on Tuesday morning.  
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> 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.  
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> There have been no findings of guilt against Roberts-Smith to a criminal standard.  
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> Roberts-Smith’s appeal in the Federal Court was [dismissed in May last year](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/561262/ben-roberts-smith-loses-appeal-bid-to-overturn-defamation-case-loss?ref=goodoil.news), when the Full Court upheld the findings of the trial judge Justice Anthony Besanko.  
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> In maintaining his innocence after the High Court refused to hear his case in September, Roberts-Smith described the allegations against him in the defamation case as “egregious” and “spiteful”.  
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> RNZ

[Read More](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/591675/victoria-cross-recipient-ben-roberts-smith-arrested-over-war-crimes-allegations?ref=goodoil.news)