Original upload date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 20:59:08 GMT
PART 1:
For three and a half years, Newcastle pathologist Dr Simon Palfreeman has been shuttling between Australia and Bulgaria negotiating that country's complex and controversial justice system t
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o try to help his 24 year old son.
Jock Palfreeman was convicted of unprovoked murder and jailed for twenty years after a melee on the streets of the capital Sofia. The final appeal court decision is due any day...Australian Story's Belinda Hawkins has been following the travails of the Palfreeman family and is now writing a book on the subject.
PART 2:
The conclusion of the story on Dr Simon Palfreeman, the Newcastle pathologist on a mission to help his son who's serving twenty years in a Bulgarian jail.
Jock Palfreeman was convicted of a murder after a melee in which one boy was fatally stabbed and another boy injured.
Australian Story producer Belinda Hawkins has been following the case from the outset and is researching a book on the subject.
In this episode all hopes focus on an appeal hearing as Simon Palfreeman is pushed to new limits.
