It was known back in 2009 that there was DNA not matching Andrew Malkinson on a crime-specific area of the victim’s clothing, yet the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), did not conduct further testing until his legal team commissioned their own forensic tests.
Malkinson endured 17 years of wrongful imprisonment due to a miscarriage of justice after being found guilty of rape in Greater Manchester before The court of appeal overturned his conviction in July after forensic testing linked another man to the crime.
He is now calling for the then head of the CCRC Helen Pitcher, to be sacked and stripped of her OBE.
In 2004, Andy Malkinson was convicted by a 10-2 majority jury verdict of the July 2003 rape of a 33-year-old woman in Greater Manchester despite the absence of any forensic evidence linking him to the attack and notable discrepancies with the descriptions provided by eyewitnesses.
Documents have revealed that Greater Manchester Police knew three years after his conviction that there were issues over the evidence that convicted Andrew Malkinson for rape
