![]() ![]() maybe I'm too damaged to have a new relationship': Andy Malkinson had his rape conviction quashed after 17 years in jail - but the scars run deep, he says in a heartrending interview as he battles to rebuild his shattered life Two defence witnesses - an Iraqi general and a US Marine staff sergeant - later testified they never saw the Iraqi captive mistreated by anyone during the 20 minutes he spent alive in American custody. In a surprise blow to prosecutors during the first week of the trial, a Navy Seal medic testified it was he, not Gallagher, who caused the death of the gravely injured prisoner by blocking his breathing tube, calling it a mercy killing. The chief petty officer was arrested in 2018, more than a year after returning from his eighth overseas deployment in Mosul, in northern Iraq. The presiding judge later released Gallagher from custody altogether, in a rebuke to prosecutors for pretrial conduct the judge said had infringed on the Navy Seal's right to fair proceedings. Trump intervened in Gallagher's case months ago, ordering he be moved from pretrial detention in a military brig to confinement at a Navy base. Gallagher insisted that disgruntled subordinates with no prior battlefield experience fabricated allegations against him over grievances with his leadership style and tactics. ![]() He was convicted on a charge stemming from the photos he and fellow Seal team members took with the dead ISIS fighter, who was brought to Gallagher's camp by an Iraqi general after being badly wounded in an air strike. Gallagher also was charged with attempted murder in the wounding of two unarmed civilians - a schoolgirl and an elderly man - shot from a sniper's perch, as well as with firing deliberately on other non-combatants and with obstruction of justice. ![]() Some of the same witnesses also said they saw Gallagher, who was originally trained as a medic, perform a number of emergency procedures on the detainee before he died. ![]()
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