Ben Roberts-Smith: I’m a war hero with a Victoria Cross!
Fairfax: Actually, you’re a murdering cunt and we’ve got evidence.
BRS: You can’t call me that, I’m suing you.
Judge: Actually, you’re a murdering cunt and they’ve got evidence.
BRS… Well shit.
I both am and am not surprised that the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case has finally ended in him losing. The trial included some fucking ghoulish details (e.g. the one-legged man they murdered and whose prosthetic leg they took as a souvenir and drank out of; and yeah, I just saw a picture on Twitter of them doing the latter which I will not post or link to) and an assortment of witnesses happy to testify that BRS really was the piece of shit the Fairfax papers were painting him as. As an exercise in defending oneself against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, it was a less than epic success. So I’n not surprised he’s lost.