Royal Marine Alexander Blackman, who shot an injured Taliban fighter in Afghanistan, will find out the result of an appeal against his murder conviction on Wednesday.

His wife Claire grinned and there were loud gasps and then cheers from his family, ex-Marines and other supporters as Court of Appeal judges quashed Alexander Blackman's conviction.

Sergeant Alexander Blackman had his murder conviction overturned on Wednesday after he was jailed for shooting a wounded Taliban insurgent in Afghanistan in 2011.

As Sergeant Alexander Blackman was already in jail, the police and Crown Prosecution Service were no longer interested in the case and Professor Neil Greenberg had to do his own information-gathering.

The former Marines said Sergeant Alexander Blackman (pictured) 'took responsibility' for killing the insurgent whom 'everybody wanted dead' because saving him would have risked British lives.

Frances Blackman's soldier son Alexander Blackman was jailed on her 74th birthday for shooting dead a Taliban insurgent during a battle in Afghanistan.

Frances Blackman’s son Alexander became the country’s most talked-about Royal Marine when he was jailed for life – on his mother’s 74th birthday – after the most controversial episode of the Afghan war.

Sergeant Alexander Blackman killed more than 30 of the ‘Queen’s enemies’ during his service in the Royal Marines, a court heard yesterday.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey (pictured) defended former Royal Marine Alexander Blackman, saying he was a 'magnificent' soldier who made a split second choice in the heat of battle.

Alexander Blackman offered his ‘profound and heartfelt’ thanks to Mail readers after learning he will be freed within weeks for killing an injured Taliban fighter in Afghanistan in 2011.

The decision took a second or two to sink in. Their years of armed combat had left some of the gents in this crowd a little hard of hearing, writes ROBERT HARDMAN.

Alexander and Claire Blackman are expected to receive police protection from potential terrorist attack because he shot dead a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan in 2011.

Sgt Al Blackman, known as Marine A, left HMP Erlestoke, Wiltshire, on the backseat of an Audi car (pictured) just after 12.30am today, having spent 1,277 days behind bars.

EXCLUSIVE: It was the moment the couple have dreamed of since the commando was jailed for life in December 2013 for shooting a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan.

Star Al Pacino could play Alexander Blackman's lawyer Jonathan Goldman QC. Sergeant Blackman, 42, was released from HMP Erlestoke Prison, Wiltshire, yesterday and reunited with wife Claire.

EXCLUSIVE: Sergeant Alexander Blackman relives his ordeal for the first time after being convicted of murder for shooting a mortally wounded Taliban fanatic in Afghanistan in 2011.

He had been behind bars for 1,134 days when he learned that his controversial murder conviction for killing a Taliban fanatic on the battlefield stood a chance of being quashed.

The Royal Marine (pictured with his wife Claire) said he spent long periods during his time in jail considering why he killed the insurgent in Afghanistan in 2011 and still doesn't know.

Sergeant Blackman was reunited with wife Claire in April after serving 1,277 days behind bars for shooting a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan.

Sgt Alexander Blackman - known as Marine A - has joined a new scheme supporting wounded servicemen find work, which was officially launched yesterday at the Houses of Parliament.

Marine A Sergeant Alexander Blackman, who was released from prison in 2017, appeared on ITV on Wednesday, where he said he was looking for work following his manslaughter charge.

Nicholas Lyndhurst, who is still instantly recognisable as Rodney, recalled larking around with his former co-stars on the legendary sitcom. He is soon to appear in musical Man Of La Mancha in London.

There comes a time in everyone’s life where you do have to wonder: is now the moment to give up on TV thrillers?

The victim, a woman in her 40s, was found in the property in Reigate, Surrey shortly before 7am on Friday. Officers confirmed that the victim's next of kin have been informed about her death.

Tom Watson's appointment as chairman of UK Music has triggered an extraordinary backlash, with insiders warning of a shattering split as they demand evidence of his qualifications for the role.

The pensioner was found dead at the scene in Levenshulme, Manchester, around 8.30pm on Thursday. Officers are on the hunt for Leroy Panton, 41, who is understood to have lived with her.

Danny Pearce, 31, was stabbed and allegedly shot at by two thugs on a scooter after he left a jazz club in Greenwich, south-east London in 2017.

The Southend manager asked if the virus deliberately attacks a certain blood type. The strange tweet drew criticism from a range of Twitter users.

An employment tribunal in Llandudno, Wales, ruled Andrew Weatherby, 50, was sexually harrassed by a female coworker. It heard that she threatened to make 'his life hell' if he reported her to his boss.

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Kim Goldman, 47, (pictured) was left devastated by Simpson's acquittal in 1995 for her brother's murder one year earlier, and says she is still struggling to move on 25 years on.

Pamela Smart is now reflecting on that period in a new episode of Dateline's Deadly Secret that will air Monday, and revealing how it felt to be the subject of so much attention during her trial.

Kim Goldman said attorney Malcolm LaVergne has piled on the tweets since her show began in June, and that she's convinced he's in cahoots with Simpson, which he denies.

Kendall Jenner moved from West Hollywood to Beverly Hills in 2017. And the 23-year-old model has not shown off the roomy mansion until now. The Vogue model uploaded several images of her pad.

Suleiman Abdirizak, 42, is alleged to have attacked the woman as he drove her from a night out in Hoxton, east London last year, ordering: 'I'll only drive you if you suck my d***'.

An unnamed New York City man's HIV diagnosis was mistakenly sent to his workplace by Mount Sinai St Luke's Hospital in 2014. He is now suing the hospital in a $2.5million negligence lawsuit.

Timothy Brown, the 51-year-old American man known as the 'Berlin patient', was declared HIV-free in 2007 after two bone marrow transplants at a hospital in Berlin.

Daryll Rowe, originally from Edinburgh, infected five men from the Brighton area and the North East with HIV while five others narrowly escaped contracting the life-changing virus.

Doctors at Leeds General Infirmary, who treated the unidentified patient and reported the strange case in a medical journal, said the shigella flexneri bacteria caused his reactive arthritis. (stock)

A diabetes patient, 85, may have contracted HIV this past November after a New Hampshire hospital mistakenly injected him with an insulin pen that was used on an HIV-positive patient.

Martin Jaksic, 30, has been undergoing medical treatment in Melbourne and entered his guilty plea during a brief appearance at Sydney's Downing Centre District Court on Wednesday.

Frank Xavier Navarro, 53, was charged with grievous bodily harm to person with intent after he allegedly infected a woman with HIV. Navarro was arrested in Sydney on Thursday.

An HIV-positive Victorian former pig farmer repeatedly phoned a woman in Thailand to procure sex with her two-year-old granddaughter, a court has been told.

Rory Francis, a HIV-positive transgender paedophile who now goes by the name Laken McKay, has asked New Zealand corrections authorities to never release her from jail.

Sean Stentiford, 48, was awarded $18.4 million from a federal jury on Monday after doctors canceled his HIV test, only for a later test to determine he had the virus and it had developed into AIDS.

An affidavit provided by the Johnson County District Attorney’s Office revealed Ronald Lee Kidwell, 47, said he 'flipped out' after MeShon Cooper confronted him at his home in Shawnee, Kansas.

Japhet Osei, of Reading, Berkshire, refused drugs to treat the infection before sleeping with the women - one of whom was just 17 - without protection.

France and Romania seemed reluctant to take any chances in their final group stage match at the Under-21 European Championships.

The World Cup winner was seen smiling and shaking hands with his compatriot before the game between USA and Holland at in Lyon.

The Spanish giants have been clear front-runners for his signature ever since he revealed he was to finally leave Atletico Madrid this summer but no official approach had been made.