Andrew Malkinson says he's living on benefits and has been forced to use foodbank as he awaits wrongful conviction payout
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA man who spent 17 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit says he is living on benefits and has been forced to use his local foodbank as he awaits compensation for his wrongful conviction.
Andrew Malkinson, now 57, was 37 when he was found guilty - on February 10, 2004 - by a 10-2 majority of carrying out a violent sex attack on a woman by the M61 motorway in Little Hulton, Salford.
In July last year, the Court of Appeal overturned his conviction after forensic testing linked another man to the crime. Mr Malkinson says he is 'in urgent need of mental health support from clinicians who would at last recognise what [he has] been through in the past 20 years'. READ MORE: The thousands of people across Greater Manchester 'living in the red' He says that despite people saying he would be owed millions in compensation, he is living in poverty.
In an opinion piece for The Guardian, he said: "In the days after my exoneration, news stories were followed by comments from the public suggesting that I must be due a major payout from the state.
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