Hell, I’m shocked at the speed it got to trial but also the fact that it ever went to trial. The way it appears things are going in the UK I’m surprised they didn’t get a pass for only acting out their cultural heritage. Prayers to the young soldiers family.
The jury took less than an hour to convict. After all, the scumbags freely admitted to it and tried to grandstand about their martyrdom during the trial. Here, a baroque defense of childhood insults in middle school and infected hangnails would be trotted out, the ACLU would bus in demonstrators, supportive t-shirts and incense would be sold outside the courthouse and Facebook pages would contain marriage proposals. The jury would take several days and dismiss most of the counts before reluctantly deciding to convict of manslaughter.
We do things quick in the UK.