No warrant received for fugitive ex-champ

Shamed former boxing ace Scott Harrison has escaped arrest after bungling Spanish bureaucrats failed to tell Scots cops to pick him up.

The troubled ex-world featherweight champ is facing a four-year jail sentence after being convicted of a savage triple assault at a Costa Del Sol brothel.

He was allowed home last October while officials in Malaga considered his appeal. But his attempts to avoid returning to prison have failed and the Spanish authorities now claim to have issued a European arrest warrant.

However, Police Scotland’s new elite Fugitive Unit have not been asked to track the 36-year-old down. They revealed: “There is no note of any European arrest warrant having been sent to us to execute.”

Harrison’s latest brush with the authorities relates to a 2007 bust up with three men at the Oxigeno vice den in Alhaurin el Grande. He was convicted of the assaults last October following a one-day trial. His co-accused, cousins Edward and David McGill, failed to appear in court. Harrison was sentenced to two years apiece for each of the two more serious attacks and fined for the third assault.

Officials insist the dad-of-three must return to court in Malaga where they will inform him he has 15 days to enter prison voluntarily.

However, on social media network Twitter he said he’d “heard nothing” from the Spanish authorities.

The Cambuslang slugger has already served 30 months in jails in Malaga and Algeciras. His first term in a Spanish jail was for a booze-fuelled bust up with a police officer and another man in 2006. The fighter’s late uncle Jack McGill was also involved.

In a strikingly similar blunder, the Spanish authorities claimed to have issued a European arrest warrant for McGill after he failed to appear in court in July 2007. More than seven months later, cops in Scotland insisted they had not been asked to arrest McGill.