CCRC told to urgently improve after Malkinson failings, watchdog warns

Andrew Malkinson served 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit due to CCRC failures; he could have been released 10 years earlier with proper DNA investigation.

In Britain, the body entrusted with correcting the gravest errors of the justice system has itself been found wanting. Andrew Malkinson spent seventeen years imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, rejected twice by the Criminal Cases Review Commission before DNA evidence finally freed him — a decade later than it should have. An independent inspection has now delivered thirty-four recommendations to address the systemic inefficiencies that allowed such a failure to take root, while stopping short of condemning the institution as irredeemable. The question that lingers is whether an organiza

CCRC told to urgently improve after Malkinson failings, watchdog warns

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