He was jailed in 2004 for a crime he didn't commit
Police and Crown prosecutors reportedly knew in 2007 that another man's DNA was on the clothes of the woman Andrew Malkinson was wrongly imprisoned for raping, yet he stayed behind bars, it was claimed today.
They opted to take no further action and there is no record that they told the Criminal Cases Review Commission , the body responsible for investigating possible miscarriages of justice, according to the report. CPS guidance states it 'must write to the CCRC at the earliest opportunity about any case in which there is doubt about the safety of the conviction'.
"By not bothering to obtain the police files, the CCRC failed to uncover evidence which could have got Andy’s name cleared a decade earlier." "These records show that is nonsense, and I don’t think they would have commissioned any DNA enquiries on this case at all if APPEAL hadn’t obtained new DNA testing results ourselves first."
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