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He did not commit. A man who was wrongly imprisoned for rape has welcomed a government decision to scrap rules which meant people who had been cleared by the courts could be charged for living costs incurred injail. Andrew malkinson told the bbc the change was a step in the right direction, but said more needed to be done to support people who were wrongly convicted. Hes been talking to our reporterjoe inwood. He started by telling him how he felt when he was first told he had to pay for his liv...

Of compensation. just to explain how the process works, somebody is - the process works, somebody is wrongfully convicted you need to go through another legal procedure in order to notjust prove that the conviction was not safe but to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you are innocent. now, this was a new test introduced by 2014 by the then coalition government. andys lawyer said it is an amazingly hard test to pass. andy probably will pass because there was dna evidence of another person which...