Please sign SAS man jailed

[Chris Rob]

Duly signed

Chris

 

[Drag1]

Job done

 

[glen13]

Signed. Mcgriger should hang his head in shame

 

[Bob]

Signed

 

[Rattie]

just signed thanks for bringing it to our attention hope his appeal gos well

 

[satellite buck]

signed....absolute disgrace.......where is this country heading.

 

[63]

I'm with Ian and others on this, hero or not stashing an unlicensed handgun in your house, pleading guilty and then being unhappy about the sentence doesn't wash with me, and obviously didn't wash with his CoC either. Afghan trauma might be defence for the odd angry outburst but not for stashing illegal weapons in your pad for years on end.

Reference CO's orders and court martials, serious offenses go straight to court martial, I would expect this to be such.

As a final thought... Who would like to be served by an Army where it was ok to acquire and stash extra-curricular guns as long as you were SF or a "good bloke"??

 

[BruinO]

SignedSigned

 

[Timney]

signed, bl**dy disgusting!!

 

[lister]

yes court marshal but why jail is it to make a point to troops in afgan or is it to show that the army is in control to powers above

 

[dalkur]

sighned, God save our Hero and look after the family.

Forever Greatful Dalkur

 

[Hornet]

Read and signed,words fail me f---ing disgraceful

 

[Virbius]

Signed, and hopeful for an appeal.
However, how would the reaction be with a different headline under different circumstances 'SAS hero suffering post traumatic stress kills with illegal war trophy pistol brought back from Iraq'?
No-one knows the full facts.

 

[pheasant sniper 1]

So as a soldier at the profesional level this man had achieved theres no doubt he will have carried out duties at some point which did not fall within " the pc or so called letter of the law "

Why then after an offence which could have been handled more sympathetically are people not compassionate to a man thats served a great many years for his country, lost his much treasured job and also faces the prospect of his own family now struggling both financially and mentally.. As if they hadnt been through enough each time they waved him goodbye..

What hes done was wrong but the price he and his family have been made to pay is disgracefull

Thank god lifes not full of pathetic limp wristed pansies that toady to every letter of the law..

Christ it would be a boring as feck life...

 

[lister]

yes you are right but he could kill with his hands with a knife with a newspaper or make a bomb with kitchen chemicals
no one has said he is a danger to the public to jail him is the issue

 

[devilishdave]

so are we saying it is ok for any soldier to bring home weapons from war zones and stash them "for a rainy day". Or does the fact this guy is special forces make it ok??I smell a complete chancer and so does the judge!!

 

[pheasant sniper 1]

so are we saying it is ok for any soldier to bring home weapons from war zones and stash them "for a rainy day". Or does the fact this guy is special forces make it ok??I smell a complete chancer and so does the judge!!

No.... What any normal person would say is sometimes people feck up and the punishment in light of his service to his country does not fit the crime..

I dont see anyone saying its ok or he hasnt done wrong..

SF and general forces soldiers dont tend to be the sort of pc panzies this site does so well to attract...

 

[devilishdave]

No.... What any normal person would say is sometimes people feck up and the punishment in light of his service to his country does not fit the crime..

I dont see anyone saying its ok or he hasnt done wrong..

SF and general forces soldiers dont tend to be the sort of pc panzies this site does so well to attract...

PS1 please accept my apologies for disagreeing with your opinion and perhaps knowing this type of individual all too well.

 

[pheasant sniper 1]

Devilishdave please accept mine as i grew up in a house with many of this type of individual sitting round the table...

 

[lister]

I was a boy at old raf ouston i played a trick on my best mate i placed a tripwire across his door atachted to milk bottles
his dad opened the door looked down and shut the door 'that is strange whent through my mind'next thing his dad came out the window with large knife i ran like hell crying like a girl next day my old man told me about being on secondment a bit like newtons law everything has an equal and opersite reaction you cannot judge these people unless you have been in their shoes