SAS man 'pressured' into guilty plea

[Jimbuna]

Well the conviction has now been quashed and a retrial will take place but more details have been released...

An SAS sniper who was jailed for illegal weapon possession said he was "elated" tonight after his conviction was quashed because a military judge improperly pressured him into pleading guilty.

The soldier's appeal centred on remarks - delivered in legal terminology and references to a previous case - made by the military judge during legal argument ahead of a trial that had been due to take place last November.

William Clegg QC, for Nightingale, said: "On the proper analysis, what the assistant judge advocate was saying here was 'unless you plead guilty, you will receive a sentence of five years'.

"This is a message that should never have come from the bench."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...onviction.html