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27.07.2023 - 07:01 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
An innocent man who served 17 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit has slammed Greater Manchester Police's apology as 'meaningless'.
Andrew Malkinson always denied carrying out the violent attack on a woman by the M61 motorway in Little Hulton, Salford, in July 2003. The following year, he was jailed for life with a minimum term of seven years, but remained in prison for a further 10 because he maintained he was innocent.
He was convicted solely because of identification evidence - the victim picked him out in an identity procedure as did two other alleged eye-witnesses. But new DNA evidence implicated another man.
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Yesterday (Wednesday), his conviction was quashed by senior judges at the Court of Appeal after DNA evidence linking another man to the crime came to light. Following the ruling, the 57-year-old said he had been 'kidnapped by the state'.
Greater Manchester Police, who handed the original investigation, issued an apology to him. Assistant Chief Constable Sarah Jackson said: "We are truly sorry to Mr Malkinson that he is the victim of such a grave miscarriage of justice in being convicted of a crime he did not commit and serving a 17-year custodial sentence.
"Whilst we hope this outcome gives him a long overdue sense of justice, we acknowledge that it does not return the years he has lost. I have offered to meet with him to personally deliver this apology."
However Mr Malkinson told the BBC’s Newsnight programme: "The Greater Manchester Police apology… it’s meaningless to me, absolutely meaningless.
"An apology without accountability, what is that? It’s nothing, it’s nothing, it means nothing."
He also said the Criminal
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