The chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission has rejected calls from the justice secretary to resign after a report on its handling of the Andrew Malkinson case laid bare “a catalogue of failures”.
A review by Chris Henley KC found that Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail for a 2003 stranger rape he did not commit, could have been exonerated almost a decade earlier. It also contained personal criticism of the watchdog’s chair, Helen Pitcher, for failing to apologise and for “taking too little responsibility”.
