"Wrongly Jailed Man Rejects Apology from UK Review Body"

Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, dismissed an apology from the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) after it twice turned down his attempts to have his conviction referred to the Court of Appeal. Malkinson, whose conviction was quashed last July after DNA evidence linked another suspect to the crime, felt the apology was "too little too late" and called for new leadership at the CCRC. He had been found guilty of a 2003 rape in Salford, northwest of Manchester, but always maintained his innocence, spending an additional 10 years behind bars before his release in 2020.