Having blogged a while back about Jack Straw's disgraceful decision to deny a pardon for jailed Liverpool fan Michael Shields, I'm delighted that Straw has now reversed that stance and released Mr Shields.
While this is a very welcome decision, we should not forget that Mr Shields spent four years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. And Straw unnecessarily prolonged that hell by first of all denying he had the right to issue a pardon and then refusing to accept the clear evidence that anyone with even the slightest awareness of this case could see: that Michael Shields was innocent. I don't see what new evidence could have appeared in the last couple of months which Straw would not have been aware of when he made his original decision.
But having said that, today is more about celebrating that Mr Shields is a free and innocent man once more.
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"I don't see what new evidence could have appeared in the last couple of months which Straw would not have been aware of when he made his original decision."
Apparently it was the fact that he was recently told by the family that they had met a man who admitted to them that he had committed the murder. I can't believe they hadn't thought to mention it till recently!
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