Appeal court overturns Manchester rape conviction of Andrew Malkinson who spent 17 years in jail

A man who spent 17 years in prison for rape has had his conviction overturned by the court of appeal.

Andrew Malkinson was convicted in 2004 of raping a 33-year-old woman, who was left for dead on a motorway embankment in Salford, Greater Manchester.

After enduring two decades of being labelled a sex offender, Malkinson, 57, had his conviction quashed on Wednesday after a DNA breakthrough.

There was never any DNA linking him to the crime and he always insisted he was innocent, spending more than double the time in prison as a result.

His case was referred to the court of appeal in January after another man’s DNA was found on fragments of the victim’s clothing.

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