Royal Marine jailed for life for murdering wounded Taliban fighter 'in cold blood'

. It's nothing you wouldn't do to us.”

Blackman, a 15-year veteran in the marines, then turned to his patrol and said: "Obviously this doesn't go anywhere, fellas. I just broke the Geneva Convention."

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Judge Jeff Blackett

Two other soldiers, known only as Marine B and Marine C, were acquitted of murder by the court martial board in Bulford, Wiltshire last month.

They were thought to have "encouraged and assisted" in the murder but were later cleared.

Blackman, known as Marine A throughout the trial, denied the murder claiming he believed the insurgent was already dead.

However today Judge Jeff Blackett told him: "You treated that Afghan man with contempt and murdered him in cold blood.

"By doing so you have betrayed your corps and all British service personnel who have served in Afghanistan, and you have tarnished their reputation."

The judge said he took into account that many had supported the marine for  his "killing within conflict" but said that these members of the public "are very wrong".

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Female serial killer admits murdering three men before dumping their bodies in ditches

By Alice Philipson

9:00PM GMT 18 Nov 2013

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A female serial killer has pleaded guilty to murdering three men before dumping their bodies in ditches.

Joanna Dennehy stabbed her landlord Kevin Lee, 48, and housemates Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, and John Chapman, 56, within days of each other.

The body of Mr Lee, who was a married father, was found stabbed to death in a roadside ditch in March. Four days later, a farmer found the corpses of the two other men in a remote dyke five miles away.

A post mortem found Mr Slaboszewski, who was unemployed, had been stabbed in the heart.

Dennehy, 30, from Peterborough, appeared in the dock in a white shirt with a star tattooed under her right eye. She stood alongside her boyfriend Gary Richards, who is 7ft 3in tall, and also known as Gary Stretch.

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