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JAILED football fan Michael Shields’s father last night hit out at the British Government for leading his family "a merry dance" by refusing to pardon his son. Shields is serving 10 years in jail for the attempted murder of Bulgarian waiter Martin Georgiev in 2005. Since the moment of his arrest the Liverpool FC fan maintained his innocence. The 22-year-old was in the Golden Sands resort near Varna to celebrate the club’s Champions League triumph in May 2005 when Mr Georgiev’s skull was smashed with a paving slab. Despite another man signing a confession and an international outcry about the case being a miscarriage of justice, Shields was locked up and transferred to Britain to serve his sentence. Yesterday – after momentum gathered behind the belief Justice Secretary Jack Straw would grant a pardon – the politician dashed... [read full story]
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