I was ‘a handy patsy’ for police, says Andrew Malkinson as real rapist convicted

Andrew Malkinson, who served 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit, outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, after being cleared by the Court of Appeal (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Archive)

An innocent man wrongly jailed for 17 years has said he was a “handy patsy” for police as the real culprit of a brutal rape was finally found guilty.

Andrew Malkinson spoke as Paul Quinn, 52, was on Friday convicted of the 2003 sex attack he was wrongly convicted and jailed for.