End majority jury verdicts to prevent more justice ‘horror’, says Malkinson

Andrew Malkinson: ‘I’m going to keep on advocating for change and reform.’ Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

Andrew Malkinson says he could have been spared “20 years of darkness and despair” if the jury system had not been changed to allow majority verdicts.

Malkinson was exonerated of rape last summer, two decades after a jury in Manchester wrongly convicted him by a majority of 10 to 2.