NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV via Getty Images Palfreeman was sentenced in December 2009 for stabbing to death a Bulgarian 20-year-old student, Andrey Monov, and wounding another man in a street brawl in December 2007. The Bulgarian government released Australian Jock Palfreeman, who was convicted of murder in 2009, from an immigration detention centre on Tuesday, more than three weeks after a court granted parole and caused political controversy. The case has strained relations between Bulgaria and Australia, whose Foreign Minister Marise Payne has expressed “deep disappointment” that Palfreeman was still in custody after being granted parole. Palfreeman has said he acted in self-defence. “Palfreeman will be released from the centre later today.

Source: Huffington Post October 15, 2019 18:56 UTC