Calls to review ‘unduly lenient’ sentence for rapist in Andrew Malkinson miscarriage of justice

Andrew Malkinson, whose conviction was quashed in 2023 after he had spent 17 years in prison, said he was ‘insulted and appalled’ at Quinn’s sentence. Photograph: Ron Fassbender/Alamy

The government’s most senior law officer has been asked to review the “unduly lenient” prison sentence handed to a rapist who evaded police for nearly two decades in one of Britain’s biggest miscarriages of justice.

Paul Quinn was jailed last week for a minimum of 14 years, meaning he could spend less time in prison than Andrew Malkinson, who was wrongly convicted of his crime.