Five or so pages on and I still don't know what to make of this, on one hand the regulations on the possession of firearms in the military should be second nature and on the other hand there seems to be medical evidence of memory loss.
What the great British public have seen and are very upset about is the inequity between a long serving member of the armed forces who is banged up ( dispite the first civil police decision that there was no criminal intent) and the fact that the UK legal system can't send a radical terrorist suspect for trial in Jordan.
Any way you look at this it has been very badly handled by the army & MoD both in outcome of the CM and the attempts to use a D notice to cover the tracks of those responsible. On the other side the supporters of Sgt Nightingale have played their hand brilliantly in the media.