Michael Shields Freed

[Citytillidie69]

I used to work for NTL with Michaels sister Laura, she always stated Michael was innocent but i suppose she would!

What ever happened to the guy who admitted throwing the paving slab? he came out after Michael was arrested after ples from his family, think he was called Graham but the bulgarian authorites would not listen to his evidence or summat? They had already made their minds up!!

Read the Telegraph article posted link above.

Sankey was his name and the evidence he gave did not tie up with Shields's case, it was fabricated in an attempt to get Shields off and when it didn't work he retracted it.

 

[bluemoonmatt]

Dipper or not, no-one wants to see someone do time for something they didn't do, I don't believe he did it, so this judgement is about bleeding time.

 

[Citytillidie69]

Dipper or not, no-one wants to see someone do time for something they didn't do, I don't believe he did it, so this judgement is about bleeding time.

have you read the Telegraph article Bluemoonmatt or are you listening to the scouse propagander.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4197098/Innocent-gentle-giant-Or-remorseless-thug-guilty-of-attempted-murder.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... urder.html</a>

 

[The Fixer]

I used to work for NTL with Michaels sister Laura, she always stated Michael was innocent but i suppose she would!

What ever happened to the guy who admitted throwing the paving slab? he came out after Michael was arrested after ples from his family, think he was called Graham but the bulgarian authorites would not listen to his evidence or summat? They had already made their minds up!!

Some bloke admitted it, then retracted his admission. He made this admission in the safety of the UK knowing full well he was never going to be extradited to Bulgaria and would never have to serve any time for the crime, which puts his confession into doubt in my mind.

Why admit to doing something like that if you haven't? only a numpty would do that, and according to Laura this guy had no links to the shields family.

 

[Dubai Blue]

What ever happened to the guy who admitted throwing the paving slab? he came out after Michael was arrested after ples from his family, think he was called Graham but the bulgarian authorites would not listen to his evidence or summat? They had already made their minds up!!

The Scouse hero wanted to get Shields freed, but wasn't prepared to put his own neck on the line by standing trial for it himself. Aptly sums up the sort of dickheads involved in this case.

 

[bluemoonmatt]

Not yet, but I saw a program where a (now retired) senior detective from the met tore their supposed evidence to shreds. There's usually two sides of course to every story but we live in a system where if there is ANY reasonable doubt that someone is guilty then we hand down a not guilty verdict or retrial based on new, substantive evidence. Its a shame we cant expect this from our European neighbours.

 

[M18CTID]

Some bloke admitted it, then retracted his admission. He made this admission in the safety of the UK knowing full well he was never going to be extradited to Bulgaria and would never have to serve any time for the crime, which puts his confession into doubt in my mind.

Why admit to doing something like that if you haven't? only a numpty would do that, and according to Laura this guy had no links to the shields family.

But 2 of Sankey's mates were staying in the hotel room next door to Shields. Way too much of a coincidence to say that they didn't know each other.

 

[Matty]

Why admit to doing something like that if you haven't? only a numpty would do that, and according to Laura this guy had no links to the shields family.

According to Shields' mates pretty much every one of them, at some point that night, went into his room and saw him in bed. That's clearly bollocks. Laura Shields isn't exactly the most subjective of people on this matter so I'm not going to hold her opinions and statements in too high a regard, if I could get my brother off a murder charge would I lie/spread false stories? Possibly.

The suggestion is that this Sankey guy lied to get Shields off (whether as a favour to the family or as a misguided sense of loyalty to a fellow Liverpool fan, who knows). He retracted his admission, possibly due to fear of recriminations, or becasue it didn't work. Apparently a "confession" has been made again, and that's what Jack Straw is using to free Shields, maybe it's the same guy, maybe he's now been offered immunity from prosecution, or maybe it's another fabrication to get the guy off.

Lets face it, we don't know, but in order to quash the Bulgarian courts decision Straw doesn't just need to have doubt in the conviction, he needs to be convinced it's wrong and Shields is innocent. This smacks of a political decision rather than a legal one. It also, as has been mentioned above, sets a dangerous precident, not just for future British criminals in Bulgaria, but in other countries too. If we can simply over-rule the decisions once the prisoners are set back to the UK to serve their time then are foreign countries going to be as compliant with future requests? I doubt it.

 

[Citytillidie69]

Why admit to doing something like that if you haven't? only a numpty would do that, and according to Laura this guy had no links to the shields family.

The "confession" was made on condition that Sankey would not have to stand trial himself, and he was mates with the two other scousers that were in the next room to Shields in the Hotel, that Sheilds stated he didn' know yet they were drinking together. The two other scousers were also convicted of affray (or something) after pleading guilty to being involved in the fight.

 

[Citytillidie69]

Not yet, but I saw a program where a (now retired) senior detective from the met tore their supposed evidence to shreds. There's usually two sides of course to every story but we live in a system where if there is ANY reasonable doubt that someone is guilty then we hand down a not guilty verdict or retrial based on new, substantive evidence. Its a shame we cant expect this from our European neighbours.

yeah, but Matt a tv programme can make you look a **** or a hero depending how hey wish to edit it.

Shields was picked out a number of independant witnesses who said he threw the paving slab....thats the crux of the matter...why would they lie.