McBride, who pleaded guilty to stealing commonwealth information and passing it to the ABC, receives non-parole jail term of 27 months
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The 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 ACT supreme court justice David Mossop delivered his judgment on Tuesday, sentencing McBride to a non-parole period of 27 months.
