Seven’s chief executive thanked Roberts-Smith for his commitment to network and wished former soldier ‘all the best’
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Ben Roberts-Smith VC has resigned from Seven West Media a day after a judge found he murdered unarmed civilians while serving in the military in Afghanistan.
The finding was made in the context of a civil case, where several newspapers successfully defended a defamation claim brought by Roberts-Smith by arguing what they had written about the former soldier was true.