UK Marine who killed wounded Taliban fighter gets murder conviction downgraded
What good is the Geneva Convention, if us and our Allies are the only ones who follow it?
So we’re supposed to be held to a higher moral standard and code of conduct blah blah blah…but the Taliban and other Jihadi Holy War declaring scum like ISIS and Al Qaeda don’t follow anything but their socio-political religious doctrine of the Koran. Which says to kill everyone that is a non-believer.
I get it. We’re supposed to be better than the Evil we are trying to eradicate. Personally, I think this Limey Jarhead should be given a Medal and a Blowjob!
Because of this Royal Marine, there is one less Jihadi Caliphate loving, goat sodomizing, Christian killing, boy raping, Woman battering piece of filth in this world!
A Royal Marine who shot an injured Taliban fighter in Afghanistan has had his murder conviction downgraded to manslaughter.
Alexander Blackman, 42, shot the insurgent in Helmand province in 2011 and was convicted of murder two years later.
Five judges sitting at the Court Martial Appeal Court in London have replaced that conviction with manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Originally, Blackman was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 10 years – but this was later cut to eight years on appeal due to the combat stress he had been suffering at the time of the killing.
The sentence he now has to serve will be decided at a hearing which has not yet been scheduled.
The shooting was captured on a camera mounted on the helmet of another Royal Marine, who went with Blackman to find the Taliban fighter who had been wounded by an Apache helicopter.
Footage shows Blackman, known as Marine A, and three colleagues dragging the injured insurgent behind the cover of bushes.
After shooting the Afghan in the chest at point blank range, Blackman can be heard saying: “There you are, shuffle of this mortal coil you ****”