Military prosecutors say West followed up on that threat by taking the suspect outside, put him on the ground near a weapons clearing barrel and fired his 9 mm pistol into the barrel.
The whole place appears to have sprouted out of the ground in a forest clearing scattered with blazing colour: bruised pink hyacinths, magenta-tinged wild gladioli and orchids with petals the colour of oyster shells.
Their half-century stand came at a rate of a run per ball as Pietersen thumped a slower ball from Rampaul straight down the ground for six and Bopara also clearing the ropes with a pull off local boy Darren Sammy.