Veteran Ben Roberts-Smith granted bail over alleged war crimes | ABC NEWS
Former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has been released from Silverwater Correctional Complex on conditional bail.
Roberts-Smith has been charged with war crime offences relating to his time in Afghanistan.
The veteran’s lawyers argued the fairness of proceedings on the charges would be compromised if he remained in prison.
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