WATCH: Andy Malkinson describes the feeling of freedom after waiting 20 years for justice. Andy spoke to kirstywark in his first broadcast interview since the Court of Appeal quashed his wrongful conviction for rape. newsnight
For a start, he looked nothing like the e-fit image of the suspect drawn up with the help of the victim.
"I lifted my chest to show them. It was considerable growth. I'd never shaved my chest in my life. But they just proceeded, brushed it aside and barrelled on."Image source,"I felt the world... the floor fell from under me. I think I actually wept. I couldn't believe it," he recalls.He told police he would have been asleep at a fellow security guard's flat, where he had been staying as a guest.
His first few months of prison time were "horrendous" - trying to work out who, if anyone, he could trust in a maximum security jail.If Mr Malkinson had admitted rape, he could have joined a rehabilitation programme. An expert psychologist may have ultimately recommended he was safe to be released on licence after his minimum term of seven years.But when he tentatively tried to get staff to hear his case, there was no glimmer in their eyes that they were willing to listen.
He then applied to the Criminal Cases Review Commission - an independent body that examines potential miscarriages of justice. "I asked the CCRC to commission new DNA testing to prove my innocence years ago, but they refused. They wouldn't even bother reviewing the police files." Those indignities would break many a man. But during his 17 years inside - including in three of the toughest, highest security jails in the country - Mr Malkinson mentally escaped with the help of books and the gym.
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