Benjamin Stimson, a Brit from Greater Manchester has been sentenced to a jail sentence of five years and four months for "terrorism" by a court in Britain, though his only "crime" is to have joined the pro-Russian rebels in East Ukraine for four months in 2015. 

Stimson joined a frontline militia in East Ukraine, but it is unclear if he ever fired a shot in anger, and more than likely that he did not. In fact in sentencing him the British judge said he agreed Stimson was not an extremist and had probably never engaged in violence:

Sentencing him, the Honorary Recorder of Manchester David Stockdale QC said: 'You ultimately did no physical harm to anyone but you assisted the militia by your presence and your involvement, and you will have given a lead to others.

You ultimately did no physical harm to anyone but you assisted the militia by your presence and your involvement, and you will have given a lead to others.

'I accept you do not hold extremist views and you have expressed your regret for your actions.

'It is clear to me that your intention of going there was not to fight but to escape your life in the United Kingdom, perhaps to find adventure and to possibly carry out humanitarian work.

'There is no evidence at all that you at any stage used any violence upon anyone. There is no evidence that you actually engaged in combat.

'On the contrary there is evidence that your presentation as a fighting man was in large part an exaggeration on your own part or even the product of fantasy.'