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Excellent news.
I wonder if this will see the appeal of all the others people accused of war crimes and breaking the Geneva Convention ?
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Reading the details of this case, it appears that the entire episode has been appallingly badly handled by all the authorities involved, and that this man has been seriously let down by the people who are supposed to support him.

I wish him every success in his appeal, and I hope he is entitled to compensation for wrongful imprisonment.
I am sympathetic to an appeal to the severity of his sentence, but not the guilty verdict itself.

There is no evidence whatsoever that he didn't kill the prisoner of war and commit an act against the Convention.

He admitted such himself, live on the video.

But I am quite content for his case to come to appeal, although for an appeal hearing to be allowed and to be successful, it is common for new evidence to be submitted.
Excellent news for Sgt Blackman - he has not been treated well by the country for whom he fought. I wish him every success - and yes, if successful I hope he receives vast amounts of compensation.
Gladeian......Vast amounts of compensation ?....for transgressing against the Geneva Convention ?
No mikey. I don't think he will be compensated for defying the Geneva Convention, I think he will be compensated for being jailed for an act committed while under an adverse mental condition caused by the stress of combat in general, and his own personal experiences in particular.

The letter of the military law was followed - but it was followed during World War I when shell-shocked soldiers who would be treated for psychological damage today, were shot as cowards.

Adherence to the letter of the military law without allowing for all evidence and testimony to be heard and considered is a flawed system, and leads to injustice, and that certainly appears to be the case here.
No for defending the country whilst armchair warriors like you want to jail him.
None of us can have the remotest idea of what he was going through out there, and should not judge him.
Much better put than I wrote AH.
^ Agree.
YMB...he broke the Convention and admitted as much.....

How is he "defending the country" especially considering that he committed his crime in Afghanistan ?

If you are hoping that "he didn't break the Geneva Convention" is going to be any help in his Appeal, than he is very lucky he doesn't have you on his defence team !

I repeat ......that I am quite content with the severity of his sentence being looked at again, but his crime was never in doubt. He is no Timothy Evans.
Common sense seems to have flown out of the window ....
hellywelly4 - //None of us can have the remotest idea of what he was going through out there, and should not judge him. //

No argument at all.

My issue is that that people who do know what he went through were not heard, and the people whose job it is to support and protect him have failed him.
Andy - do you mean support before or after the incident?
mikey - //YMB...he broke the Convention and admitted as much.....

How is he "defending the country" especially considering that he committed his crime in Afghanistan ?

If you are hoping that "he didn't break the Geneva Convention" is going to be any help in his Appeal, than he is very lucky he doesn't have you on his defence team !

I repeat ......that I am quite content with the severity of his sentence being looked at again, but his crime was never in doubt. He is no Timothy Evans. //

I think the comparison with Timothy Evans is a serious stretch in every circumstance.

But that aside - the issue of MS Blackman's contravention of the Geneva Convention is not in dispute by anyone, and I am sure that includes YMB.

The issue is that mitigating factors have neither been heard or considered correctly - and that is why the review is essential.

If, when that evidence is heard, the court would have reached a different decision, then part of all of the imprisonment will be seen as unjust , and compensation will be his entitlement.
Z-M -// Andy - do you mean support before or after the incident? //

Both - but afterwards was clearly not handled as it should have been.
Andy...if what you say is true, and more importantly, found and proved to be true by the Appeal Court, then I am more than happy to side with the outcome of the Court.

But what you have said is what not most others have said on this thread.

They seem to think that because the dead man was a Taliban fighter,, and was executed after his capture, then its OK for Blackman to kill him as he did.

That is the beginning of a very slippery slope.

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