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The 2011 Helmand Province killing was the manslaughter of a wounded Taliban insurgent by British Royal Marine Sergeant Alexander Wayne Blackman on 15 September 2011. Blackman and two other Royal Marines, Corporal Christopher Glyn Watson and Marine Jack Alexander Hammond, known during their trial as Marines A, B, and C, were anonymously tried by court martial for the killing. On 8 November 2013, Watson and Hammond were acquitted, while Blackman was found guilty of murder of the Afghan insurgent in contravention of section 42 of the Armed Forces Act 2006. This made him the first British soldier to be convicted of a battlefield murder whilst serving abroad since World War II.
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