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:) It's driving me nuts, having to delete the duplicate post every time I type anything. Probably why I accidentally hit the Edit button instead of Reply With Quote, as I've done it so many times today. I can appreciate that might sound like a total cover story though :lolol:

Apologies for that, I meant to click 'reply with quote' but I clicked the edit button instead, and because I have the moderator function on my account, when I wrote what I wanted to say, it appeared on your post instead and made it look like you said it. So I deleted what I wrote and reinstated...

You're talking to the wrong poster here, I haven't said anything whatsoever about the impact or otherwise of petitions. You said it had over 100k, I was merely confirming the actual current figure of around 53k. It may well reach the 100k mark in the end. It's just not there yet. That's all.

53,578 as of just now, FYI.

I think they wouldn't overturn anyway based on the evidence before the court martial, regardless of anybody's religion. Just like there are transparently plenty of non-Muslims on here who believe he's done wrong, you'd probably find Muslims in this country who might back the bloke up, not to...

That could in itself be a sign of stress- a total detachment from an event that would normally faze a person. Or it could be as the court evidently believed, that he it meant nothing to him and he'd get away with it. One other thought here- the people who convicted him were military personnel...

A mere glance at the split in views on here suggests that opinions bear no relation to anyone's ethnicity or religious persuasion.

It's a decision arrived at by a military court martial, as opposed to a civilian court. I'm not sure quite how the law works when it comes to military subjects, but assuming the legislation is the same, the offence of murder is essentially the killing of another human being, under the Queen's...

Difficult one this. There can be no doubt that serving in conflict zones can cause all sorts of mental and emotional problems for participants. Witness another case http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-23963788- I knew the chap in question before he went out to Afghanistan, and he's one...