Former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has returned to Australia for the first time since losing a defamation case against three newspapers.
Roberts-Smith, who landed in Perth late yesterday, said he was devastated by the loss of his defamation case against The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times.
His comments were the first he has made in public since the case ended. Roberts-Smith spent the days prior to the court judgment in Bali.
"It was a terrible result and obviously the incorrect result. We will look at it and consider whether or not we need to file an appeal," Roberts-Smith said after touching down in Perth.
"There is not much more I can say about it... we just have to work through it and I'll take the advice as it comes."
He was seen in Queenstown in New Zealand yesterday afternoon with his partner as they checked in for a flight.
Roberts-Smith ruled out apologising to families of the victims affected by his actions in Afghanistan.
"We haven't done anything wrong, so we won't be making any apologies," he said.
Roberts-Smith insisted he was proud of his service in Afghanistan.
While collecting his luggage at Perth airport, he was approached by one man who expressed his support for the former SAS corporal.
Roberts-Smith was not in the Federal Court earlier this month when a judge found allegations he murdered or was complicit in the killing of four unarmed Afghans while deployed overseas were "substantially true" in a landmark defamation ruling.
Roberts-Smith has always strongly denied any wrongdoing.
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