mikey - //YMB...he broke the Convention and admitted as much.....
How is he "defending the country" especially considering that he committed his crime in Afghanistan ?
If you are hoping that "he didn't break the Geneva Convention" is going to be any help in his Appeal, than he is very lucky he doesn't have you on his defence team !
I repeat ......that I am quite content with the severity of his sentence being looked at again, but his crime was never in doubt. He is no Timothy Evans. //
I think the comparison with Timothy Evans is a serious stretch in every circumstance.
But that aside - the issue of MS Blackman's contravention of the Geneva Convention is not in dispute by anyone, and I am sure that includes YMB.
The issue is that mitigating factors have neither been heard or considered correctly - and that is why the review is essential.
If, when that evidence is heard, the court would have reached a different decision, then part of all of the imprisonment will be seen as unjust , and compensation will be his entitlement.