A person who spent 17 years in jail for rape has had his conviction overturned by the courtroom of enchantment.
Andrew Malkinson was convicted in 2004 of raping a 33-year-old lady, who was left for lifeless on a motorway embankment in Salford, Higher Manchester.
After enduring twenty years of being labelled a intercourse offender, Malkinson, 57, had his conviction quashed on Wednesday after a DNA breakthrough.
There was by no means any DNA linking him to the crime and he at all times insisted he was harmless, spending greater than double the time in jail in consequence.
His case was referred to the courtroom of enchantment in January after one other man’s DNA was discovered on fragments of the sufferer’s clothes.
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