Wednesday 11 May 2022 07:41 AM Witness codenamed Person 11 has supported the testimony of his friend Ben ... trends now
A former SAS soldier has denied concocting a false story with Ben Roberts-Smith to cover up their involvement in the alleged murder of an Afghan prisoner.
The witness codenamed Person 11 resumed giving evidence for the war veteran on Wednesday and was questioned about a September 2012 mission in Darwan, in the Uruzgan province.
Person 11 told the Federal Court his troop under patrol commander Mr Roberts-Smith had travelled across a dry creek bed when he spotted an insurgent near cornfields about 15 metres away.
A former SAS soldier has denied concocting a false story with Ben Roberts-Smith (pictured at the Federal Court in Sydney on Tuesday) to cover up their involvement in the alleged murder of an Afghan prisoner
He said the individual was moving in a suspicious manner and was carrying a radio, leading to an assessment he was a Taliban spotter.
'So I engaged,' he said on Tuesday.
It backs up his good friend Mr Roberts-Smith's testimony that the man was lawfully shot in a cornfield within the rules of engagement.
It has been alleged the dead man was in fact a handcuffed prisoner named Ali Jan, kicked off a steep cliff by the Victoria Cross recipient and executed down below by Person 11.