COURT RULING MAY FREE JAILED FAN IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS.CALLS were made last night for jailed Liverpool fan Michael Shields For the British body snatcher of the same name, see . Michael Shields (born 21 September, 1986 in Liverpool, England) is a football fan who gained notoriety when, on May 30, 2005, he nearly killed a Bulgarian Citizen with a paving slab in the Black Sea resort of Golden Sands, to be set free by Christmas after he won a dramatic landmark High Court victory. Shields, now 22, is serving 10 years for the attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. of a barman at the Big Ben diner in Varna, Bulgaria, in 2005. The barman was attacked a few nights after Liverpool's European Cup Final victory in Istanbul, Turkey. The original 15-year sentence was reduced on appeal in Bulgaria, and Shields was transferred to the UK in 2006 to complete serving it. Aged 18 at the time of the offence, he has now been imprisoned for over three-and-a-half years. Another fan, Graham Sankey, signed a confession A Confession is a short work on questions of religion by Leo Tolstoy. It was first distributed in Russia in 1882. Consisting of autobiographical notes on the development of the author's belief, A Confession - later retracted - that he was the man responsible, but the Bulgarian Supreme Judicial Council said the new evidence did not prove anything and merely introduced doubt. Yesterday the Shields family was overjoyed as two High court judges ruled that Justice Minister Jack Straw had power "to consider at least granting pardon to Michael Shields on the facts presented to this court". CAPTION(S): HOPE Michael Shields has been in prison for three years for attempted murder, despite another man confessing. |
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