After 110 days in court, 41 witnesses and an estimated $25 million in legal fees, Federal Court Justice Anthony Besanko found The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Canberra Times proved Ben Roberts-Smith was a war criminal, murderer and bully on Thursday in one of the biggest defamation trials ever in Australia.

The Victoria Cross winner had claimed that a series of articles published by the newspapers wrongly accused him of war crimes in Afghanistan and domestic violence at home.