The High Court has granted the Justice Secretary Jack Straw the power to grant Michael Shields a pardon.
The 22-year-old is serving a 10-year sentence for the attempted murder of a barman in Bulgaria in 2005, but has always maintained his innocence.
The High Court now says the Justice Secretary can "grant a pardon to repatriated prisoners wrongly convicted in a foreign jurisdiction".
Judith Moritz reports.
One-Minute World News 
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