Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Saturday 14 Dec 2013

1. JAILED MARINE’S WIFE: HE’S NO MURDERER

The Royal Marine jailed for executing a wounded Taliban fighter is not a murderer, his wife tells the Daily Telegraph. Claire Blackman says her husband, Sgt Alexander Blackman, acted in a moment of madness. “If you ask someone what murder is in this country they might say someone stabbing a little old lady in the high street,” she said.

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