I served 17 years in jail for a horrific rape I didn t commit - and now the DNA evidence proves it
Andrew Malkinson, 55, has always insisted that GMP got the wrong man
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Andy Malkinson could have served less than half the 17 years he was in prison - but he refused to admit the offence (Image: APPEAL.ORG.UK)
A man who served 17 years in jail for a horrific rape says he is innocent - and that he now has the DNA evidence to prove it.
Andrew Malkinson was 37 when he was found guilty of carrying out a violent sex attack on a mum-of-two by the M61 motorway in Little Hulton, Salford.
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Published 29 April 2021
Unreliable witness testimony has been the biggest cause of miscarriages of justice over the past half century, a major new study suggests. The research also suggests that regulations governing the powers of police have been effective in reducing wrongful convictions caused by unreliable confessions.
Unreliable witness testimony has been the biggest cause of miscarriages of justice over the past half century, a major new study suggests.
The research also suggests that regulations governing the powers of police have been effective in reducing wrongful convictions caused by unreliable confessions.
Dr. Rebecca Helm, from the University of Exeter Law School, led the analysis of more than two hundred and fifty miscarriages of justice that have occurred in England & Wales over the last fifty years. This research has led to a new publicly available database of over 350 convictions overturned due to factual error in England and Wales and elsewhere in the U.K., f
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