The judge's summing up points out the propaganda victory this incident has handed to the insurgents. Not only in the fact of the murder but in the justification they will see in meting out worse atrocities on UK troops.
On that basis he's done his colleagues a massive disservice and shredded his good professional record.
Ten years looks about right to me, indeed it makes full use of mitigation.
If other guys committing street offences in UK are getting off lightly them that's a different issue.
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