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Criminal review board 'sorry' for failing Andrew Malkinson Criminal review board 'sorry' for failing Andrew Malkinson
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Andrew Malkinson said the apology was "too little, too late"
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has offered an "unreserved apology" to an innocent man who spent 17 years in prison.The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has offered an "unreserved apology" to an innocent man who spent 17 years in prison.
Andrew Malkinson was wrongly convicted of raping a woman in Salford in 2003 and languished in the prison system until he was exonerated by DNA testing. Andrew Malkinson was wrongly convicted of raping a woman in Salford in 2003 and remained in prison until he was exonerated by DNA testing.
CCRC chairwoman Helen Pitcher said she was "deeply sorry" for "failing" Mr Malkinson.CCRC chairwoman Helen Pitcher said she was "deeply sorry" for "failing" Mr Malkinson.
Mr Malkinson criticised Ms Pitcher for waiting until the conclusion of an independent review before offering the apology, calling it "too little, too late". In response, he criticised her for waiting until the conclusion of an independent review before offering the apology, calling it "too little, too late".
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. Mr Malkinson was formally acquitted in July 2023 but it later emerged that DNA implicating another suspect was discovered four years after he was jailed.
You can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. He had written to the CCRC asking it to refer his case to the Court of Appeal in 2009, but the commission refused to do so.
It refused to order further forensic testing in 2012 and declined a second application in 2020.
Mr Malkinson said: "It is hard for me to see sincerity in an apology after all this time - when you are truly sorry for what you have done, you respond immediately and instinctively, it wells up in you."
Ms Pitcher, however, said: "For me, offering a genuine apology required a clear understanding of the circumstances in which the commission failed Mr Malkinson. We now have that."
The victim of the rape, a 33-year-old mother of two, had been followed by a man and throttled unconscious as she walked in the Little Hulton area of Salford in July 2003.
Mr Malkinson, who had been working in the area as a security guard, was sentenced to life in prison for the attack the following year - with reports from the time describing how he shouted out "protesting his innocence" from the dock.
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