Ben Roberts-Smith planned to leave Australia and researched buying wellness business in Spain, court documents show
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/23/ben-roberts-smith-planned-to-leave-australia-and-researched-buying-wellness-business-in-spain-court-documents-show
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**Roberts-Smith**: Yes, breathe in. Now shoot the old legless man in the head with this F89 Minimi. Breathe out. Don’t you feel better now? Great. Let’s take a break. There are some activated almonds and oat milk on the counter over there. You’ll have to drink the oat milk out of the prosthetic leg. It’s part of the process.
Probably should have left BEFORE the defamation case. IMO.
But these types never do, do they?
>Roberts-Smith told the court he was unemployed, had no assets, and received only a service pension of $4,500 a fortnight.
ONLY, ONLY 4500 a fortnight. ONLY.
The poor guy. He literally got nothing.
The Christopher Skase method.
something about being granted bail when charged with a violent crime just doesn’t sit right with me
Fuck I hate this cunt and everything he stands for
People who are innocent (or want to appear genuinely innocent) do not try to flee the country or restructure their lives overseas. Smart people who are innocent also don’t plan their lives in a country with an extradition treaty or countries that are members of Interpol.
Edit: Grammar.
Plenty of people trying to come to his defence and say there’s no evidence he planned to go overseas at all and he had fully intended to hand himself in and cops are being vengeful or something.
None of those people seem to care about his frequent overseas travel and conflicting statements he’d made to investigators and family.
Ben Roberts-Smith is the definition of a flight risk.
The above is my personal opinion. In case anyone is thinking of suing me for defamation
Watch 7West media stay silent on this one.
So he was fleeing to countries that have an extradition treaty with Australia?
Shocking
Ben Roberts-Smith the war criminal?
Why was he granted bail?
*Court documents released by Judge Susan Horan in the Downing Centre local court on Thursday show Roberts-Smith had investigated business opportunities around the world, including a sunshade firm in Thailand and seeking to buy a fitness and wellness business in Spain. He travelled to Myanmar to meet with a friend who owns an avocado farm there, as part of his “job prospecting overseas”.*
Huh… I wonder why he was looking into those countries?
Oh I see… Australia has formal extradition relationships with Spain and Thailand, but **not a bilateral treaty with Myanmar.** Spain is covered by a 1988 treaty, Thailand by specialized 1995 regulations based on reciprocity, and Myanmar acts via ad hoc, case-by-case arrangements. All require double criminality (the action must be a crime in both nations).
*”The media coverage of the proceedings both before, during and after the defamation trial made it untenable for Ben to be able to secure stable, long-term employment.”*
It’s hilarious to blame the ‘media coverage’ of a defamation suit (that HE started) where your husband was found, on the balance of probabilities a war criminal, as the reason he can’t find a job. Maybe they were just so acclimatized to Stokes and channel 7 jerking him off as a hero that they couldn’t believe that any media doesn’t.
He’s gonna need some oxygen tanks soon
Wellness in Spain. The guy looks terrible for his 40s
what a ‘patriot’
Jackson Warne nailed it. It was an attack against Australia patriotism by a government that’s clearly against Australian virtues & has been for far too long.
All for votes fucking woke cunts.
Let’s not forget his lawyer offered to surrender to police if charges were to proceed.
Instead 8 cars & 40 blokes surround a plane & take him away in front of his kids.
Disgrace!
I can’t take that chin seriously.
In his situation I’d also be looking for anyone hiring overseas
As soon as I heard he was arrested at the airport I knew he was fleeing the country
he hasn’t got a leg to stand on (unless he kept the trophy)
That doesn’t seem like the actions of an innocent war hero… at least in my opinion.
As a very left leaning person how on earth is everyone so certain this man is guilty of these crimes? As far as I’m aware the case is unlikely to be proved beyond reasonable doubt.
Despite any wrong doing this man has sacrificed more for the country than most of us ever will.
Those who ordered our service personnel over there should be held just as accountable for supporting American wars. Imagine trying to act within the rules of engagement against an enemy who impersonates civilians once you’ve seen mates and the local army being blown apart. Yeah not gonna happen
Was it Mallorca by any chance? Remember Skase hiding there?
Surprised he didn’t seek a job in the White House. Criminality is after all a pre-requisite it seems, he just needs a sexual offence charge or two.
What is with the blacksheep hat? Is he trying to devert his war crimes???
Do you think he is wearing the black sheep hat for a reason???
All the dickheads that complained about how he was “sensationally” arrested when it was clear he was a flight risk
Are his eyes too close together or does the giant jaw just confuse things
My money’s on Gina flying him out on one of her private planes
The beatings will continue until you’re well. If not a bullet to the head will fix you, like my clients in Afghanistan.
– BRS Wellness Centre, Spain.
Depends on the circumstances. Lump sums are. Taking the lump sum as a pension is too. Apparently the medical pension has minor tax implications.
That photo is giving Temu Chesty Bonds