Boxer Asks Macaskill to Fight for His Release ; Jailed Harrison Wants Transfer From Spanish Prison to Barlinnie

Evening Times › January 29, 2011

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JUSTICE Minister Kenny MacAskill is to be asked to intervene in the case of ex-world featherweight boxing champion Scott Harrison after his agreed transfer from a Spanish jail to Barlinnie was dealt a blow.

Harrison's lawyer, Ron Mackenna, is to make a plea to Mr MacAskill to step in on compassionate grounds to aid the repatriation of the 33-year-old, originally from Cambuslang, who has served more than 20 months of a 30-month sentence in Botafuego jail in Algeciras for assault.

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Boxer Asks Macaskill to Fight for His Release ; Jailed Harrison Wants Transfer From Spanish Prison to Barlinnie

Mr Mackenna, of Glasgow-based law firm John McGovern, said the boxer's family, face unnecessary financial and travel pressures cloc...

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