GMP's failure to disclose key evidence led to a man spending 17 years in jail for a rape he has always denied, a court was told. Andrew Malkinson was 37 when he was found guilty on February 10th 2004 of carrying out a violent sex attack on a mum-of-two by the M61 motorway in Little Hulton, Salford. There has never been any DNA to link him to the attack.
As reported in the Manchester Evening News, judges ruled yesterday that the case should be heard in full by the Court of Appeal in July.
In January the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), an independent body that investigates potential miscarriages of justice, had referred the case to the Court of Appeal after it carried out its own forensic inquires and DNA testing revealed a potential alternative suspect.
