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.
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