A FORMER senior police officer has labelled the jailing of Liverpool football fan Michael Shields in Bulgaria for a crime he claims he did not commit as "a mockery of justice."
The 19-year-old from Wavertree is serving a 15-year jail sentence after his conviction for the attempted murder of a barman in the Black Sea resort of Golden Sands
The former head of Nottinghamshire Police's Serious Crime Squad, Peter Coles, who led more than 100 murder investigations, claims Bulgarian police made a series of errors over the teenager's arrest.
Mr Coles says British police officers would have been sacked for the alleged blunders he has uncovered and dismissed the evidence as "not worth the paper it's written on."
As the Daily Post reported yesterday, the former detective chief superintendent, who was awarded the Queen's Police Medal, was commissioned by ITV1's Tonight programme to conduct a special investigation of the Shields case.
He said: "I was a policeman for 35 years, joining in the 60s when things were not as they are now.
