Australia’s most embellished serviceman vows to battle warfare crime prices

An Australian former soldier charged with committing warfare crimes in Afghanistan vowed on Sunday to clear his title, saying he had by no means “run from a battle” in his first public feedback since his arrest. Ben Roberts-Smith was granted bail on Friday after a high-profile arrest on 5 counts of “warfare crime homicide”. Police alleged he was complicit in a string of illegal killings between 2009 and 2012 in Afghanistan.