A man who spent 17 years in jail for a rape he denies has vowed to prove his innocence as police confirmed they have arrested an alternative suspect. Andrew Malkinson was 37 when he was found guilty of carrying out a violent sex attack on a mum-of-two by the M61 motorway in Little Hulton, Salford.
But now the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), an independent body that investigates potential miscarriages of justice, has referred the case to the Court of Appeal after it carried out its own forensic inquires and DNA testing revealed a potential alternative suspect.
Meanwhile Greater Manchester Police confirmed today that a 48-year-old man from Exeter has been arrested on suspicion of the rape.
