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Appeal Hearing
- Palfreemans werent mentally prepared for the appeal because they
couldnt understand the reasonings for the verdict
- On one hand the court accepted the witness statement of Georgini that
there was a beating of a man, but then in its conclusion, it positively found
that there was no evidence of the fight of the Roma or Gypsie THIS IS
COMPLETE STUPIDITY
- A large number of witness statements taken from the boys in the group
that said there was fight with a gypsie. These people changed their
stories, then the Monovs blocked it from coming out
- There are already excess of 200 cases waiting to be checked by the
European court of Human Rights the Bulgarian judiciary is already under
scrutiny by the European union
- Geri Palfreeman (sister of simon) was diagnosed with a disease
(dysplasia?). She needed a bone marrow transplant. Of the 6 siblings, only
Simon was a match. Family issues and stress during the trial
- Jock Palfreeman appealed the conviction as unjustified in the light of
evidence. The prosecution and civil claiminants appealed the 20 year
sentence was too lenient, requesting it should be increased to life without
parole
- Simon is getting tired from travel. Sometimes Simon gets optimisitic, but
then his hopes get shattered.
- Jock is losing hope
- Defence wanted to look at whether the injury was consistent with the
Jocks knife.
- The forensic evidence was poorly done. The appeal courts rejected the
request of reviewing the forensic evidence
- Doctor Grozeva? Examined jock and the boy that was wounded. When she
examined Jock, there was no blood stains on his clothes. She is not sure if
he is the murderer
- Monovs blood was found on the knife carried by Jock
- Doctor Grozeva found that it wasnt Jocks knife that caused the wounds
- Jocks fingerprints were not found on the knife he carried. The injured mans
blood was not on it either
- Julian McMahon there is a lot of doubt. This doubt is important when
committing someone of murder.
- Doctor Grozeva is upset with the police and forensic science here. They
are not well educated
- Jock carried a knife because of the dangers in Sofia
- Simo Panov a person that was saved by Jock in another incident
- The police agreed their first statements was original and valid. This was
obvious purgery but nothing was said about that but atleast we had their
original police statements
- Dr Krassimir Kanev, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee
- Antoan Zahariev. If Andreis parents ask me to give a statement then I
will as it happens
- Jock tries to focus on the welfare of other inmates
- Heathrow Airport snowfall has stopped the planes. They postponed the
court date to another date in January
- Simon had a health scare. He couldnt see from one of his eyes. He
discovered he has partially lost the sight in his right eye. Could be a result
of the stress and the fact that Jock is in prison
- Court upheld the 20 year verdict. The court formulated a worse version of
the story, saying he wanted to kill way more people
- They had another appeal. It will come any day. If it is adverse, they will
consider taking the case to the European Court of Human Rights
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- There are no partial fingerprints of Jock on that butterfly knife. That it
means its possible that Jock didnt kill him
- Jock
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