Royal Marine appeals against conviction for killing Taliban insurgent
Sergeant Alexander Blackman was found guilty in November of murdering the injured Afghan man in Helmand in 2011
A Royal Marine found guilty of murdering a badly injured Taliban insurgent has asked three of the country’s most senior judges to overturn his “unsafe” conviction.
Sergeant Alexander Blackman, who is serving a minimum of 10 years in a civilian jail, has launched an appeal against his conviction at the court martial appeal court in London.