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  "description": "The Victoria Cross recipient was arrested at Sydney Airport’s domestic terminal after a flight from Brisbane on Tuesday morning.",
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  "textContent": "> 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.\n>\n> The Victoria Cross recipient was arrested at Sydney Airport’s domestic terminal after a flight from Brisbane on Tuesday morning.\n>\n> 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.\n>\n> There have been no findings of guilt against Roberts-Smith to a criminal standard.\n>\n> Roberts-Smith’s appeal in the Federal Court was dismissed in May last year, when the Full Court upheld the findings of the trial judge Justice Anthony Besanko.\n>\n> 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”.\n>\n> RNZ\n\nRead More",
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