Jamie McKinnell
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But there are more specific things as well, like restrictions on his use of mobile phones and computers.
For example, he's not allowed to use certain encrypted applications or communication tools.
And a big one as well was a security deposit.
His father put up a security deposit of $250,000 to secure his release on bail on Friday.
Yeah, I think we're going to have to wait and see in that respect what exactly they were hinting at there.
But it's quite obvious even watching the news cycle that there has been a huge level of coverage in this case.
And he's always obviously taking note of that.
And it is something that in one defence argument that might come up later on in the track would have an impact on
ability to have a fair trial.
So I guess that's kind of what they were hinting at.
But his lawyers, when they raised that prospect of a superior court or courts, they only said in due course that that might have to happen.
So it's really been thrown out there as a possibility without any timeline or sort of firm indication of whether they'll do that.
And if they do, at what point they'll try to do that.
Well, it's a statement of alleged facts in this case.
So it's a prosecution document where it was basically 25 pages of what the Crown is relying on in this case so far.
And it had some interesting revelations in there.
The main thing that stuck out to me was that there are three indemnified Defence Force witnesses who have given written accounts of their evidence to prosecutors so far, and they have been offered an undertaking by the Commonwealth DPP.
And according to the alleged facts in this case as well, those witnesses have, quote, admitted to their personal involvement in executing one or more detainees at the direction of or in complicity with Ben Robert Smith.
And it says Ben Robert Smith was their military supervisor at the time.
So there are outlines of the allegations, each of the five counts of war crime murder.