Police and CPS had key DNA evidence 16 years before Andrew Malkinson cleared of rape

No action taken despite 2007 discovery of searchable male DNA profile on rape victim’s top that did not match Malkinson’s

Police and prosecutors in the Andrew Malkinson case knew there was another man’s DNA on the victim’s clothes in 2007 – three years after he was wrongly convicted of rape – but he remained in prison for another 13 years.

Malkinson was cleared by the appeal court last month after spending 17 years in prison for a 2003 rape he did not commit. His exoneration came after fresh DNA testing linked another man to the crime.

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