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Convicted Aussie murderer says new CCTV proves innocence Australian Jock Palfreeman says newly-released footage of a brawl in which he fatally stabbed a Bulgarian man proves he was acting in self-defence.

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Australian Politics. By Reuters Staff. SOFIA Reuters - Bulgaria will move to lift a ban that prevents an Australian man convicted of murder in and released on parole from leaving the country, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.

Palfreeman served 11 years of a year sentence for murder and attempted murder in the stabbing of two Bulgarians, one of whom died, during a street melee in Sofia, before being granted parole by a court panel. He was serving in the British army at the time of the offence. He has said he acted in self-defence and was trying to protect minority Roma being attacked by the two Bulgarians.

The year-old said he had not made any plans to leave the country as the Bulgarian government was still controlling his movements. Bulgaria Helsinki Committee president Dr Krassimir Kanev, who wrote a letter in support of Palfreeman's early release, said the court's decision on Thursday was a "major step" toward the year-old's freedom.