FOOTBALL FAN GARRY MANN TO BE EXTRADITED TOMORROW

Garry Mann and his family

THE INDEPENDENT

England football fan Garry Mann will be extradited to Portugal tomorrow to serve a two-year jail sentence. The former Kent firefighter, 52, will travel from Heathrow to Lisbon and then be transferred to an as yet undisclosed prison.

He was convicted over a riot during the Euro 2004 tournament but says he never received a fair trial.

Jago Russell, of Fair Trials International, said Mr Mann's trial was a "travesty of justice" and the decision to extradite him an "outrage".

He said: "Politicians in the UK and Europe must now wake up to the injustice being caused under Europe's fast track extradition system and reform it before countless others suffer the same fate as Garry."

Fair Trials International said Mr Mann is booked on to an Air Portugal flight departing from Heathrow's Terminal One at 4.20pm.

At the centre of the case is the European Arrest Warrant and the fast-track system for extradition within Europe.

Fair Trials International said it has serious concerns because courts interpret the law as leaving them no option to block an unjust extradition.