A court martial held on the Suffolk air base found stealth jet pilot Jacob Wulfson guilty of strangling Sarah Steele, who he met on an online dating app at his flat in Cambridge on December 2, 2023.

An eight-strong jury of fellow officers acquitted him of a further charge of rape after a six-day trial, before sentencing him to six months' detainment in a correction facility at Lakenheath.

The Guardian reports proceedings were presided over by a colonel in the US Air Force and Wulfson was allowed to choose his comrades in arms, who had no legal training to decide his punishment after the six-day hearing, which took place in April.

Had the trial been held in a British court, it would have been heard before a jury of ordinary men and women.

If convicted, Wulfson would have been sentenced by a judge who would have been able to impose a sentence for up to five years for the equivalent offence of non-fatal strangulation.

The case would also have been held in an open public court, where it would almost certainly have been reported on.

Sarah Steele, whose case was dealth with by the American........

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