Four UK Marines charged with torturing colleague
Four British Royal Marines have been charged with subjecting a colleague to a brutal initiation ceremony involving “waterboarding” and other forms of torture.
Royal Marine Ian Tennet, Lance Corporal Scott Simm, and James Taylor, a lance corporal in the Royal Marines Reserves and Former Marine Ryan Logan were charged with the ill-treatment of Carlo Nicholson (pictured below), a subordinate.
Tennet was sentenced to 11 months in jail while his two accomplices were given eight months each.
Logan (pictured below), however, was sentenced to 220 hours of unpaid community work for the "water-boarding incident" where he placed material over Nicholson’s face and poured water over it.
Sentencing the marines at the Portsmouth Naval Base's court martial center was Judge Advocate Robert Hill, who said Nicholson was subjected to “40 minutes of depravity and naked humiliation” by members of the 45 Commando unit based at Royal Marine Condor in Arbroath, Scotland, in May 2014.
During the initiation ritual, which was witnessed by 80 drunken comrades, Nicholson was forced to drink from a paddling pool filled with urine and vomit, a practice he says has left him with “suicidal thoughts.”
The initiation event, described in court as a "rite of passage", saw the victim and other newcomers to the unit being forced to run naked around the camp with milk and lemonade bottles taped to their arms.
Nicholson was forced to lie down in the paddling pool containing urine and vomit while eggs were thrown at him. He also had to fight other marines while naked and covered in cooking oil.
“The incident has left me feeling like I just want to be alone and I am pushing people away,” said Nicholson who is now suing the UK Ministry of Defense over his treatment.
“I feel like the water-boarding was the point where I snapped because it was a physical fear and I was panicked,” he added.
Nicholson has a daughter and has left the service ever since.
Eating spoons of chill, cinnamon and curry powder, along with dog food while on all fours were some of the other ordeals Nicholson was put through.
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