Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.
Family to Appeal Bulgaria Conviction
Sofia | 03 December 2009 |
The father of an Australian man jailed for 20 years in Bulgaria for alledged murder and attempted murder says key evidence was not taken into account during his son's trial.
Jock Palfreeman was sentenced overnight in a Sofia court after being convicted of murdering a student and injuring another two years ago. The 23-year old has pleaded not guilty.
Palfreeman now has 15 days to appeal against sentence. He is accused of stabbing to death the son of a prominent Bulgarian psychologist, attempted murder and hooliganism. The court also ordered Palfreeman to pay 400,000 leva in compensation to his victims or their families, and pay court costs.
Palfreeman was arrested after the incident in Sofia, on 28 December, 2007, in which Bulgarian law student, Andrei Monov, 20, was fatally stabbed and another severely wounded.
Palfreeman said he was out that night and saw a group attacking two Roma men. He claims he intervened to protect them and the group turned on him, at which point he took his knife to protect himself.
Palfreeman went on trial in May last year before a head judge. The court says Monov was stabbed in the back, disproving claims that Palfreeman was acting in self defence.
"This was detailed in the court on numerous occasions," Palfreeman said, as reported by Australia's ABC News. "There was key evidence that was blocked from being presented to the court and taken into account.
"This related directly to some of the key witnesses actually changing their stories from their signed police statements."
