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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Emily Dugan

‘Catalogue of failures’: watchdog missed chances to help Andrew Malkinson, report finds

Andrew Malkinson
Andrew Malkinson spent 17 years in jail for a 2003 stranger rape he did not commit. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

A report on the Criminal Cases Review Commission’s handling of the Andrew Malkinson case has laid bare “a catalogue of failures”, finding that he could have been exonerated almost a decade earlier.

The review by Chris Henley KC found that the watchdog missed multiple opportunities to help Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail for a 2003 stranger rape he did not commit.

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