An appalling miscarriage of justice. The start of the BBC piece:

“The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has offered an “unreserved apology” to an innocent man who spent 17 years in prison.

Andrew Malkinson was wrongly convicted of raping a woman in Salford in 2003, but was exonerated in July 2023 by DNA testing.

CCRC chairwoman Helen Pitcher said she was “deeply sorry” for “failing” Mr Malkinson.

In response, he criticised her for waiting until the conclusion of an independent review before offering the apology, calling it “too little, too late”.

Mr Malkinson was formally acquitted in July 2023 but it later emerged that DNA implicating another suspect was discovered four years after he was jailed.

He had written to the CCRC, the body set up to review criminal convictions and check for potential miscarriages of justice, asking it to refer his case to the Court of Appeal in 2009.

In 2012 it refused to do so and also refused new forensic testing, before declining a second application in 2020.”

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