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While General Pinochet was let out, Ronnie Biggs and Liverpool football supporter Michael Shields remain unfairly imprisoned It becomes clearer by the day that justice minister Jack Straw, who allowed mass murderer Pinochet to escape the consequences of his actions, is not prepared to show the same degree of mercy to working-class people. So if any of his constituents in working-class Blackburn fall foul of the law, they should not look to their MP for compassion, or justice for that matter. Hot on the heels of his refusal to accept the parole board's recommendation to release Ronnie Biggs, our justice minister – and one-time firebrand president of the National Union of Students – has refused to pardon football supporter Michael Shields , who was jailed in Bulgaria in 2005 for the attempted murder of a barman. Shields has... [read full story]
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