Devon based Marine guilty of murdering injured prisoner

A  Devon based Royal Marine has been found guilty of murder after shooting dead an injured prisoner in 2011.

Two other marines were acquitted at the Military Court Centre in Wiltshire.

The marines known only as Marines A, B, and C due to an anonymity order placed due to fears for the safety of their family.

Two further marines, known only as Marines D and E, had charges against them dropped in connection to the case.

The three marines had denied murdering the unknown man while on patrol in Helmand province in 2011.

Marine A was convicted at a Military court martial after the prosecution said he had effectively executed a prisoner, by shooting the injured man at short range.

Royal Military Police arrested the three marines in October 2012 after suspicious video footage was found on a serviceman's laptop by civilian police in the UK.

The footage from a head mounted camera was released to the court and shows Marine A shoot the man with a handgun at short range then saying “there you go shuffle off this mortal coil... it’s nothing you wouldn’t do for us.”

Marine A was also heard to say: "Obviously this doesn't go anywhere, fellas. I just broke the Geneva Convention."

Marine A faces a mandatory life sentence and has been taken into custody.