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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Dominic McGrath

End ‘living costs’ charges for wrongfully convicted prisoners, says Tory MP

PA Wire

A senior Tory MP has urged ministers to change the rules, after a man who spent 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit said he now feared having to pay for his “board and lodging” while locked up.

Andrew Malkinson, 57, was wrongly found guilty of raping a woman in Greater Manchester in 2003 and the next year was jailed for life with a minimum term of seven years.

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