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The three Italian thugs jailed for the brutal assault which left Irish Liverpool fan Sean Cox with life-changing injuries have all been freed from prison.

Simone Mastrelli - one of the three Roma fans imprisoned in the UK for the “sudden and unprovoked” attack on the Meath dad of three - was only one third of the way through his three-and-a-half year sentence.

Sean, 53, from Dunboyne, was set upon near Anfield stadium before Liverpool’s Champions League tie against AC Roma on April 24, 2018.

He had travelled over to Merseyside to watch the crunch European game against the Italian side with his brother.

In February 2019, Mastrelli, 31, was caged after pleading guilty to unlawfully and maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm to Sean, who was left in a coma for six weeks at Walton Neurological Centre in Liverpool before being transported back to Dublin's National Rehabilitation Hospital.

Two other Roma fans, Daniel Sciusco, 30, was jailed for two-and-a-half years for violent disorder in August 2018, and 22-year-old Filippo Lombardi was caged for three years for violent disorder in October 2018.

However, the Herald reports that the British Ministry of Justice have revealed that all three men have been released. The ministry would not give the exact dates that they were set free.

Sean suffered serious catastrophic head injuries in the attack.

He spent four-and-a-half weeks at the Walton Centre in Liverpool, a specialist neurological unit for brain injuries, following the attack on April 24, before being airlifted to another specialist unit at Dublin's Beaumont Hospital.

The next stage of his recovery saw him moved to the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dun Laoghaire. He then spent several months at Marymount Care Centre in Lucan before finally getting to return to his family home last month - almost two years after the horror attack that changed his and his family's lives forever.