Blunder frees soccer hooligan

English hooligans were tonight warned they will serve jail terms dished out by Portuguese courts after an apparent blunder saw one ringleader escape his sentence.

English hooligans were tonight warned they will serve jail terms dished out by Portuguese courts after an apparent blunder saw one ringleader escape his sentence.

Garry Mann, jailed for two years by an Algarve court this week, will not serve time behind bars because he was expelled too soon for him to be legally jailed in the UK.

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