[2][3] He served as a sergeant in the Special Air Service from 2001,[4] undertaking tours of duty in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Libya.
[8] Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Defence, asked Dominic Grieve, Attorney General, "to review whether the public interest test has been applied appropriately".
Nightingale and his supporters claimed that his trial had become "political" and that the authorities were pursuing a vendetta against him because he had challenged the military prosecutors.
[12] At trial, Nightingale said that his previous defence had been false and instead claimed the pistol and ammunition "must have belonged to his colleague and housemate," who was also an SAS soldier.
However, you have brought much of that anguish upon yourself and your public assertions that you are a scapegoat or the victim of some wider political agenda is absolute nonsense.
"[7] The judge also said that the case deserved a sentence of immediate custody, which would have been imposed save for the earlier remarks of the Court of Appeal.