Last week Bulgaria’s prosecutor general, Sotir Tsatsarov, asked the supreme court of cassation to suspend the court decision to release Palfreeman on parole and to reopen the case. Palfreeman, then 21 and enlisted in the British army, pleaded not guilty to murdering Monov and attempting to murder Zahariev. Palfreeman was convicted of murder and attempted murder, and sentenced to 20 years in prison with a non-parole period of 10 years. According to Bulgarian law, that decision was final. But while Palfreeman’s parole was greeted with elation by his family in Australia it has been condemned by senior politicians in Bulgaria, including the dead man’s father.

Source: The Guardian October 02, 2019 00:11 UTC