Alexander Blackman Refused Bail.

[webbo3]

For what reason would they refuse him bail, he not a risk to the general public.
Another case of out of touch judges.

Sgt Alexander Blackman refused bail pending new appeal
http://news.sky.com/story/sgt-alexander-blackman-refused-bail-pending-new-appeal-10704220


Dave.

[Gromit]

divebuddy
Putting a bullet into a dead man would not be breaking the Geneva Convention.

He admitted at the time that he believed the man to be alive by saying he had just broken the convention. Likewise his comment to Soldiers A and B, that this (the shooting) doesn't go anywhere fallas.

Graphic content and swearing on the YouTube link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjtzgWzh9fk

[Togo]

//Not sure there is anything progressive about letting a convicted murder out on our streets//

Gromit would never ever support such a Liberal action....in any circumstance. Unless of course know different. Meehh.

[webbo3]

islay, \\Webbo - whose to say - if he is willing to murder someone in cold blood on camera imagine what he could do next time he 'flips'//


you could say the same thing about any soldier, he was in a war zone not shopping.


Dave.

[Orderlimit]

Poor bloke, exposed to situations that AB'ers sat in their armchairs could never ever comprehend but can judge from comfort of easy life

[fiction-factory]

Yes, maybe mental health issues.

[EDDIE51]

Gromit I share your view. I have heard the tape and read the transcript of the judgement.That is why I don't think the appeal has a hope in hell !

[anneasquith]

No one made him enlist.

[EDDIE51]

I just wonder if the opinion of some on AB would be the same if the situation was IDENTICAL but it was an Afghan soldier who had executed a wounded British soldier!
Unless you can truly say that your opinion would be EXACTLY the same you should just keep your mouth shut!

[Gromit]

// Until the appeal is completed we can't say what (officially) actually happened. //

Officially what happened has already been established with his conviction. He has to win an appeal for the official version to change, and then a retrial to establish a new official version.

[-Talbot-]

EDDIE51
I just wonder if the opinion of some on AB would be the same if the situation was IDENTICAL but it was an Afghan soldier who had executed a wounded British soldier!



That would only happen on whatever planet you're living on, EDDIE.

[Togo]

//I just wonder if the opinion of some on AB would be the same if the situation was IDENTICAL but it was an Afghan soldier who had executed a wounded British soldier! //

Guess what, we expect it, the soldiers expect it (and worse). If they can mow down their own kids with suicide vests, nothing except their own demise will halt their murderous intent.

[bednobs]

i think its tricky. No matter what your views on what happened, he has in fact been convicted of murder. We can't pick and choose what murders are "ok" and which are not can we? if we did, we would all have our personal views on which were ok, and which were not. If someone is convicted of murder, you would expect them to complete their sentence, or carry on serving their sentence while they appealed, and i would expect the same to happen here

[Togo]

Note buddy, the gainsayers and apologist use our very own laws and morals to condemn us, the very laws and morals that the do not possess, or indeed have any concept of. We need to make them the special cases that they consider themselves to be.

[Deskdiary]

Interesting debate. Strikes me Gromit is arguing from an objective view on the facts known to date, which is fair enough. Whereas Islay isn't and should be thoroughly ashamed of him or herself.

Islay is the worst sort of person to have any opinion on this matter.

On the strength of the current judgement he is a murderer, and as much as I disagree with it, them's the facts. Although as somebody has already pointed out, Chad Evans was a rapist , and many people on this site took great delight in that - although those same people were remarkably silent when he was exonerated, so I sincerely hope an exoneration will be forthcoming on this issue.

You cannot compare a murder in a British street to what (appears to me at least) something that happens on a battlefield. I have seen the video.

[bednobs]

"Islay is the worst sort of person to have any opinion on this matter."
Yikes, what's that supposed to mean, people can only express an opinion if you concurr?