at least three thousand marines came and stood in solidarity for the infamous Marine A, Royal Marine Commando Sgt Alexander Blackman is currently serving an 8 year to life sentence for allegedly murdering a Taliban Whilst fighting the war in Afghanistan in 2011…

Sergeant Blackman was posted to the remote command post Omar, with 15 younger Royal Marines under his command. They lived for more than six months in a small mud enclosure, in appalling conditions of physical discomfort. Daily, they patrolled on foot for up to 10 hours in a large hostile area where the Taliban were most active.

On 15 September 2011, towards the end of their fraught tour, Sergeant Blackman and his patrol were directed to an insurgent who had been fatally wounded by gunfire from an Apache helicopter. Horribly exposed in a known hotspot for enemy activity, they knew that other insurgents were in the area. They dragged the fatally wounded man to cover. Sergeant Blackman then shot what he believed to be a dead Taliban insurgent who had been shooting at his fellow Royal Marine colleague’s minutes earlier.

Following the Court Martial and a failed appeal Alex Blackmans wife Claire Blackman and the immediate family submitted an application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) on the 16th of December 2015 requesting that his case be reviewed and referred back to the Court of Appeal.



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