Liverpool football fan Michael Shields is now just months into his 15 year prison sentence for a crime that he and his supporters insist he did not even commit.
Shields was arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of Bulgarian waiter Martin Georgiev at the resort of Golden Sands in Bulgaria, earlier last year.
The then 18 year old was travelling home to Liverpool via Bulgaria after attending the European Cup Final in Istanbul. On July 26 2005, Shields was convicted despite claiming his innocence throughout.
Meanwhile back in the UK, Graham Sankey actually admitted to the offence himself in front of UK police. He confessed in a statement that he slammed a paving stone onto the head of Georgiev. Although, due to the fact that he confessed in the UK, Bulgarian courts will not accept this despite his telling them that Michael Shields was nothing to do with the crime.
On returning to Bulgaria, Sankey will face trial himself and be sent down for 15 years also, therefore he is putting off returning while UK police have no control over his return. Liverpool footballer Jamie Carragher is backing a newspaper campaign started last year to release Shields from this false imprisonment.
posted by iJourno at 5:37 pm
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