Outside court Blackman’s wife, Claire, who has led the campaign to free the former sergeant, said she was delighted by the result saying it “much better reflected the circumstances that [her] husband found himself in during that terrible tour of Afghanistan”. In Wednesday’s ruling, the appeal court judges said Blackman had been “an exemplary soldier before his deployment to Afghanistan in March 2011”. As the insurgent’s body twitched, Blackman told him: “There you are, shuffle off this mortal coil, you cunt. During the appeal, Blackman’s team, led by Jonathan Goldberg QC, said the marine had adjustment disorder, a mental illness. We respect the court’s decision and it would be inappropriate for us to comment further on it.”Factors taken into account by the judges included:

Source: The Guardian March 15, 2017 10:33 UTC