UK SAS sniper walks free

Gun sentence suspended UK man charged with terror offense

LONDON, Nov 30, (RTRS): A British elite special forces sniper, whose 18-month jail sentence for possessing a pistol had caused public outrage, walked free after winning a legal appeal.

SAS Sergeant Danny Nightingale, 37, had admitted illegal possession of a Glock 9 mm pistol and ammunition at a court martial earlier this month. But he maintained he was given the gun as a present in Iraq and, because of a brain injury, forgot about it.

An appeal against the sentence, led by his wife Sally, had attracted over 100,000 signatures and was backed by several newspapers and Prime Minister David Cameron.

“Thank you to the great British public,” Sergeant Nightingale told reporters outside the Royal Courts of Justice after his release. “It’s been an extremely humbling experience.” His tearful wife Sally added she had not dared “dream this would be the outcome.” “We got justice today,” she said. Lord Igor Judge ruled that while Nightingale had been found guilty of very serious offences, he was satisfied the special circumstances surrounding his military and medical history called for a lesser sentence. LONDON, Nov 30, (AP): British police say that a man from London has been charged with a terrorism offense following a police investigation.

Scotland Yard said that 26-year-old Afsor Ali, from east London, faces four counts of possessing documents containing information likely to be useful to terrorists.

Ali is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Dec. 6. The power stations of the Selby area, northern England send smoke into the sky as a man carries a sack of feed for pheasants across the flood plains of Ryther and Cawood during an early morning autumn sunrise as the floodwater makes the daily task more difficult on Nov

30. (AP)