Alexander Blackman

Alexander Blackman is a former sergeant in the British Royal Marines who in 2013 was convicted at a court martial of the murder of a captured insurgent in Afghanistan in 2011.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a recommendation that he serve at least 10 years, reduced to the ranks and was dismissed with disgrace from the British forces. For most of the trial he was known as "Marine A".

He originally comes from Taunton in Somerset.