UK convicts real rapist after innocent man served 17 years for his crime

Andrew Malkinson spent 17 years imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, losing his freedom and remaining on the sex offender registry despite exoneration; the rape victim suffered permanent physical and psychological trauma from the 2003 attack.

In the long and imperfect history of justice, few failures cut as deeply as the imprisonment of an innocent man while the guilty one lives freely among his neighbors. Andrew Malkinson, a security guard in Manchester, spent seventeen years inside a prison for a rape committed by Paul Quinn — a convicted sex offender who lived near the scene and whose DNA had been in police databases all along. Quinn was finally sentenced in June 2026, more than two decades after the crime, while the systems that failed Malkinson — and the woman he was wrongly accused of harming — now face their own reckoning. T

UK convicts real rapist after innocent man served 17 years for his crime

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