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A confidential police report suggests jailed Liverpool fan Michael Shields may be innocent.
The Merseyside Police report, compiled for Justice Secretary Jack Straw, says if the case had happened in the UK, Shields may have been given an appeal, the BBC reported.
A new witness claims the attacker was not Shields, the report says. Straw has denied Shields a pardon.
Louise Ellman, Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside, said the police report confirmed her view that there had been a miscarriage of justice.
Shields was jailed for 15 years in Bulgaria in 2005 for the attempted murder of barman Martin Georgiev, who had a rock dropped on his head in Varna. His sentence was later reduced when he was transferred to a UK prison.
Shields, like a number of Liverpool fans, had broken the journey home from Istanbul following Liverpool FC's European Cup victory in Turkey.
In a provisional decision on Thursday, Straw was unable to conclude the 22-year-old was "morally and technically innocent", a UK Ministry of Justice spokesman said.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was sentenced for bombing a plane over the Scottish village of Lockerbie in 1988 has been found on deathbed in the Libyan capital Tripoli.
Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has left Tripoli amidst the ongoing civil war in Libya, probably evacuated by Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, just as the UK government said he might be wanted again.
The combined shortcomings of the British and Bulgarian legal and political systems had already condemned the young Liverpool football fan to serve four-and-a-half years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
The sisters of Liverpool fan Michael Shields, who was sentenced in Bulgaria to ten years in jail for an attack on a barman, but was recently pardoned by his home country, have won a national award for their dedication to getting him out of jail.
Bulgarian prosecutors have confirmed expectations that they do not plan to resume the trial against Liverpool fan Michael Shields, who was sentenced here to ten years in jail for an attack on a barman, but was recently pardoned by his home country.
A Euro MP has demanded that Bulgaria explains why it released the man who confessed to the crime Michael Shields was convicted for.
A young man from Chirpan has died after spending months in a coma following a violent assault that reportedly began over a dispute involving cigarettes
A 53-year-old man with a criminal record has been detained in Bulgaria during a targeted police operation against vote buying, carried out in the village of Brestnitsa in the Lovech region
A criminal network linked to Bulgaria has been accused of defrauding dozens of elderly people in northern Greece through an elaborate telephone scam that resulted in losses exceeding 600,000 euros, according to Kathimerini.
A premeditated murder investigation is underway after a violent incident in the village of Kokalyane near Sofia, where a man is accused of fatally stabbing another person inside a garage that had been adapted for living
Italian authorities have launched an investigation into a large-scale scheme involving the illegal export of hazardous waste to Eastern Europe, with five Bulgarian nationals among those under scrutiny
Authorities in Bulgaria report a significant escalation in efforts to combat election-related violations, with 183 individuals detained in connection with crimes against electoral rights
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