ENGLAND FAN GARRY MANN LOSES EXTRADITION CASE

Garry Mann and family

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England fan Garry Mann's hopes of avoiding two years in a Portuguese jail were dashed today when human rights judges rejected a legal challenge to his extradition.

Nearly six years after being tried and convicted over a riot at the Euro 2004 tournament, the former Kent fireman had asked the European Court of Human Rights to block his removal to serve the jail term in Albufeira.

But Fair Trials International, a campaign group which has been supporting his case, said today the judges in Strasbourg had refused to intervene.

Chief executive Jago Russell said: ''Garry Mann could be on a flight as soon as tomorrow, sent to serve two years in a Portuguese jail after what is widely recognised was a grossly unfair trial.

''It is a travesty of justice that the British courts, the government and now the European Court of Human Rights appear happy to sit back and let this happen.''