McBride, who had pleaded guilty to stealing commonwealth information and passing it to the ABC, receives non-parole term of 27 months
Former army lawyer David McBride has been sentenced for stealing and leaking documents about war crimes committed by soldiers in Afghanistan.Former army lawyer David McBride has been sentenced for stealing and leaking documents about war crimes committed by soldiers in Afghanistan.Former army lawyer David McBride has been sentenced to a maximum five years and eight months in jail for his role in stealing secret defence documents about the Afghanistan war and leaking them to the media.
The judge on Tuesday said he ultimately believed McBride was of “good character” but he appeared “to have become obsessed with the correctness of his own opinions”. McBride collected mostly secret military information over an 18-month period in 2014 and 2015 and handed it to journalists at the public broadcaster. The material was used as the basis for an investigative series exposing war crimes committed by Australian defence personnel in Afghanistan titled The Afghan Files.In a sentencing hearing last week, the commonwealth indicated it wanted McBride jailed for more than two years over his “deceptive” behaviour.
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