A little-known system in which US military personnel are tried through courts martial for alleged crimes committed in Britain is under increasing scrutiny. One person who has gone through that system is academic Sarah Steele.
Steele told Guardian investigative correspondent Harry Davies that her case was taken up by the US military justice system, after she was strangled one night by Jacob Wolfson, an American fighter pilot who lived in a flat in Cambridge. All of the jurors at his trial were Air Force men. He said, “It’s really difficult to sit in a room full of people in uniform, a large number of elderly people and people who don’t have the same life experiences that I have; they were culturally different.”
Davis explains annie kelly About this parallel justice system, how it differs from British courts and how other crimes committed in Britain are tried under it.
