A Royal Marine jailed for life for killing an injured Afghan fighter is due to find out today if he will be released on bail.Sergeant Alexander Blackman was jailed for 10 years for shooting dead a Taliban insurgent who had been wounded in an attack on a British base in Afghanistan in 2011. The killing happened in Helmand province in 2011 when Blackman shot the insurgent in the chest at close range with a 9mm pistol before quoting a phrase from Shakespeare as the man convulsed and died in front...
