“Sgt Danny Nightingale, a special forces sniper who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was sentenced to 18 months in military detention by a court martial last week.”
(His crime? He had a 9mm Glock given him by the Iraqi government.)
”The court was told that he returned to Britain in a hurry after two friends were killed in Iraq, leaving his equipment — including the pistol — to be packed up by colleagues.”
“(I)n November 2007, two of Sgt Nightingale’s closest friends, Sgt John
“Battersby and Cpl Lee Fitzsimmons, were killed in a helicopter crash. He accompanied both bodies back to Britain and helped arrange the funerals.
“In Iraq, his equipment was packed by colleagues, one of whom placed the pistol inside a container that was sent first to the SAS regimental headquarters in Hereford, then to his home where it remained unopened until 2010.”
(The truly disappointing part of the story is not that Sgt Nightingale was found guilty, but that a military court handed down the sentence and the prison time. You have to wonder if the court martial judge has any pointy bullet time.)
A travesty that must be made right.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9669410/SAS-war-hero-jailed-after-betrayal.html
Found at www.anenglishmanscastle.com
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.