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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Josh Halliday North of England editor

Andrew Malkinson accuser ‘wasn’t too sure it was the right man’, court told

Andrew Malkinson sitting on a wall posing for a picture in 2024
Malkinson, 60, was released from prison in December 2020. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

A woman who alleged she was raped by Andrew Malkinson admitted to police 22 years ago that she “wasn’t too sure it was the right man”, a court has heard.

Malkinson spent 17 years in prison for an attack he did not commit in what jurors heard was a “most terrible” miscarriage of justice. Paul Quinn is now on trial at Manchester crown court accused of the 2003 rape after fresh DNA tests allegedly linked him to the victim.

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