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The family of Michael Shields, the football fan jailed for attempted murder in Bulgaria, hit out at the Government for leading his family "a merry dance" by refusing to pardon his son. Shields, 22, is serving 10 years for the crime against waiter Martin Georgiev in 2005. Since the moment of his arrest the Liverpool FC fan maintained his innocence. He was in the Golden Sands resort near the Port of Varna to celebrate the club's Champions League triumph in May 2005 when Mr Georgiev's skull was smashed by a thug with a paving slab. Despite another man signing a confession and an international outcry about Shields's case being a miscarriage of justice, he was locked up and transferred to Britain for the remainder of his sentence. After people began to think that Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, would grant a pardon, the... [read full story]
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