ENGLAND FAN’S FINAL BID TO AVOID PORTUGAL EXTRADITION

BBC NEWS

Lawyers for an England football fan from Kent who lost his fight to avoid extradition to Portugal have made a last-ditch appeal to the High Court.

Garry Mann, 52, of Faversham, was given a two-year jail term for his role in a riot in Albufeira during Euro 2004. He had his appeal against extradition to Portugal rejected by the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday.

Rebecca Shaeffer, Mann's caseworker at Fair Trials International, said the evidence was crucial to the case but conceded the outlook was "bleak".

"We are applying to the High Court to give the UK one final chance to stop Garry's unjust extradition," she said.

"Vital new evidence that Garry was never meant to serve two years in prison in Portugal has emerged, but no judge has yet agreed to hear it and remedy the injustice he has suffered."