A man who spent 17 years behind bars for a rape he says he did not commit will today find out if the Court of Appeal will clear his name.
Andy Malkinson, 57, has always denied carrying out the 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.
At the time of his trial, there was no DNA evidence linking him to the crime and the prosecution case against him was based solely on identification evidence.
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