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LONDON (Reuters) - Justice Secretary Jack Straw has provisionally ruled out granting a pardon to a Liverpool football fan jailed by a Bulgarian court for an attempted murder he denies, his department said on Thursday. Michael Shields was convicted in July 2005 of smashing a rock over the head of bartender Martin Georgiev during a street brawl in the Golden Sands resort. He was convicted in Bulgaria but transferred to a British prison to finish his 10-year sentence. In December, the High Court ruled that Straw had the "power and jurisdiction" to exercise the ancient "royal prerogative of mercy" to pardon Shields. But Straw said he had provisionally... [read full story]
5:20am UK, Sunday November 22, 2009 Julie-Anna Needham, Sky News reporter A new scheme which helps protect young people from street crime has been greeted with approval by many of those affected by violence. A City Safe sticker...
