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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jane Dalton

Officials refused to examine DNA in wrongful conviction rape case ‘because of cost’

Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

A body set up to investigate miscarriages of justice failed to pursue DNA evidence in the case of a man wrongly jailed for rape because of the cost, internal logs reveal.

The  Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) twice turned down applications by Andrew Malkinson for his case to be re-examined before the Court of Appeal eventually overturned his conviction.

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