Free Marine A

[BlackLabel]

Britain’s most senior military judge mishandled the trial of a Royal Marine accused of murdering a wounded Taliban fighter to the extent that his conviction may now be quashed, the body that investigates potential miscarriages of justice has found. The Criminal Cases Review Commission concluded that Jeff Blackett, the Judge Advocate General, was guilty of an “apparent failure” to properly apply the law when he failed to give a military jury the option of convicting Alexander Blackman of the lesser charge of manslaughter, according to extracts of an official report seen by The Telegraph.

[Pebbles167]

Looks like Blackman has luck on his side then, good for him if his conviction is quashed, or reduced.

That said, it will be quite a failure of the justice system if he is now able to walk completely free and that be the end of it. The guy killed someone, in full knowledge of what he was doing. No matter how many facebook warriors say otherwise, the guy is guilty.

[johnfm]

Pebbles167 said:

Looks like Blackman has luck on his side then, good for him if his conviction is quashed, or reduced.

That said, it will be quite a failure of the justice system if he is now able to walk completely free and that be the end of it. The guy killed someone, in full knowledge of what he was doing. No matter how many facebook warriors say otherwise, the guy is guilty.

The point is, guilty of what?

Is a PH warrior different to a Facebook Warrior?

[anonymous-user]

I think manslaughter would be a reasonable verdict. However, that'd have to be based upon his mental health at the time as opposed to his rather questionable suggestion he thought he was shooting someone already dead.

[Pebbles167]

johnfm said:

The point is, guilty of what?

Is a PH warrior different to a Facebook Warrior?

Not my place to say. But would you think it right for him to serve nothing?

La Liga said:

I think manslaughter would be a reasonable verdict. However, that'd have to be based upon his mental health at the time as opposed to his rather questionable suggestion he thought he was shooting someone already dead.

Personally, i doubt PTSD is really a factor, but good on him if he can get his charge down to manslaughter instead. Where do you draw the line between a stress disorder, and just stress? Of course his job wasn't an easy one, but video evidence suggests he was operating with a reasonably sound mind. That said, shooting someone unarmed isn't the mark of a sane man. To ne honest, I've met people that I'm pretty damn sure would have happily done the same as him if they thought they could get away with it. They were sane, they were just aholes.

The claim he made about shooting someone he thought was already dead was a load of crap. Terrible defense.

Edited by Pebbles167 on Tuesday 10th January 20:19

[carinaman]

1 minute 50 seconds 'Error after error after error':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5ToCveA7XI

Cluster Phuck.

[Pan Pan Pan]

Pebbles167 said:

Looks like Blackman has luck on his side then, good for him if his conviction is quashed, or reduced.

That said, it will be quite a failure of the justice system if he is now able to walk completely free and that be the end of it. The guy killed someone, in full knowledge of what he was doing. No matter how many facebook warriors say otherwise, the guy is guilty.

Failure of the justice system? What you mean like failure of the human rights lawyer, who made millions (of taxpayers pounds) out of prosecuting UK armed forces personnel, and spent millions drumming up false cases against the members of our armed forces.?
I hope he gets a seriously long jail sentence for the harm he has caused to
to UK armed forces, and their families by his corrupt practices.

[Ayahuasca]

Anyone see the articles a week or so ago by retired soldiers, one describing how he had shot two wounded Malay insurgents to put them out of their misery, and the other how (quite a senior officer) had administered what he knew was a fatal dose of morphine to a wounded colleague, not to put him out of his misery but to stop him screaming so he could focus on fighting the enemy.

[IanH755]

Unfortunately something which, as an ex-military guy, I think should be kept on the battlefield (reducing the suffering of a mortally wounded person) has been splashed about because of the Marine wearing a camera. Once civilians see see that kind of footage the military has to act upon it as Marine A did "techincally" break the Law despite it being a humane thing to do.

I was always amazed on Ops seeing the number of go-pro's etc people would festoon themselves with and I was very surprised they weren't banned.

[Fittster]

Who determined the victim was mortally wounded?

[55palfers]

Fittster said:

Who determined the victim was mortally wounded?

I guess they should have waited for the Taliban to call up their helicopters to take the chap to a Taliban field hospital then onwards to a fully equipped and staffed Taliban hospital specialising in military medicine?

[Fittster]

55palfers said:

Fittster said:

Who determined the victim was mortally wounded?

I guess they should have waited for the Taliban to call up their helicopters to take the chap to a Taliban field hospital then onwards to a fully equipped and staffed Taliban hospital specialising in military medicine?

Well it appears that the Geneva convention was being ignored so maybe you are correct.