Dramatic video clips that show the lead up to the Marine A shooting incident during the Afghanistan War have been released by the Ministry of Defence following a legal challenge. The footage (centre and right) - which has never been seen before - shows the events in the minutes leading up to the incident in which a Taliban fighter was shot dead. Sgt Blackman (left) would later be convicted of murdering the insurgent, who was found wounded after he attacked a British position, and given a 10 year jail sentence, later reduced to eight. The dramatic footage comes from a helmet-mounted video camera worn by one of the junior Marines in Sgt Blackman's patrol. It shows soldiers witnessing the attack by an Apache helicopter on the insurgent's position minutes before the patrol discovered his 'bloodied body'. An appeal against Sgt Blackman's conviction begins next Tuesday and hundreds of ex-Marines and other supporters are expected to travel to the Royal Courts of Justice in London in solidarity.
Revealed: Never-before-seen footage of devastating Apache helicopter attack in the moments before Marine A shot a wounded Taliban insurgent dead
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