A Royal Marines sergeant faces life imprisonment after being found guilty of the cold-blooded battlefield murder of a seriously wounded Afghan insurgent. Two other marines were cleared of murder by a court martial board '" the military equivalent of a jury '" and have been allowed to return to their unit.

The court martial in Bulford, Wiltshire, was told that the three marines, who can be identified only as Marines A, B and C, were part of a patrol tasked to deal with an insurgent hit in a helicopter attack in Helmand in September 2011.

After dragging him to the side of a field, Marine A shot him in the chest while he was still clearly alive. B and C were also accused of murder by dint of helping and encouraging A, but were cleared. They insisted they were shocked when A opened fire.

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