US Marine discharged over Iraqi soldier killing

A Marine reservist who killed an Iraqi soldier was sentenced today to a bad-conduct discharge but will serve no more time behind bars, a spokeswoman said.

Lance Cpl Delano Holmes, 22, was also reduced in rank to private, said 1st Lt Lisa Roberts.

Holmes, who spent 10 months in military jail, could have faced up to eight more years of confinement.

A Marine jury convicted him yesterday of negligent homicide and of making a false official statement in the December 31, 2006, stabbing death of Pvt Munther Jasem Muhammed Hassin in Fallujah.