Lord Carey: ‘I’m praying for jailed Marine A Sergeant Blackman’

Mar 27, 2017 by

by Harry Farley, Christian Today:

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey of Clifton is praying for the release of jailed ‘Marine A’ whose murder conviction has been overturned.

George Carey joined MPs, peers and retired military chiefs in calling on judges to grant mercy to Sergeant Alexander Blackman in court on Tuesday.

The marine’s new prison sentence for shooting a wounded Taliban is being decided by the Appeal Court after it reversed his murder conviction, downgrading it to manslaughter because of combat stress.

Lord Carey, 81, described Sergeant Blackman as a ‘magnificient soldier’ with a ‘long and distinguished record of service’ to the Queen.

‘I have served myself in the armed forces and know that in the heat and dust of battle, split second decisions must be made and expediency can sometimes overcome strict morality even for the best of men,’ he said in a public statement on Sunday.

‘Unless you have walked a mile in their shoes it is hard to understand the pressures,’ he added.

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