DNA testing could uncover dozens denied justice like wrongly jailed Andrew Malkinson
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAndrew Malkinson - who spent 17 years behind bars for a rape he didn't commit - has repeated calls for the boss of the Criminal Cases Review Commission to be sacked after the body revealed it was reviewing more than 5,000 cases it turned down.
Mr Malkinson, now aged 58, 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.
He was convicted despite no DNA evidence. He was jailed for life with a minimum term of seven years, but served a further 10 more after maintaining his innocence.
In July last year however, the Court of Appeal overturned his conviction after forensic testing linked another man to the crime. READ MORE Neighbours wake up to 'screams' as fire tears through home with man dead and another fighting for their life His case was referred to the Court of Appeal in the January by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which investigates potential miscarriages of justice, after the new DNA evidence was discovered.
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