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Hi it's Manvine here. Back in 2021 we released a series here on Stories of Our Times called

17 Years. It was an investigation hosted by the reporter Emily Dugan. It looked at a potential

miscarriage of justice involving a man who was convicted of a rape that shook a community

in greater Manchester. Today we have an update on that case with my colleague Will Row, the producer

of the series. I'm in Clark & Well in Central London. It's a cold, wet, miserable January day,

and the light is fading as I arrive at an old industrial building just after four o'clock.

I press the buzzer for the legal charity appeal. They're expecting me,

and I make my way up the staircase and walk into a busy office space.

I'm here because news has broken that Andrew Malkinson, a man who spent 17 years in jail,

has had his case referred to the Court of Appeal. The announcement came from the Criminal

Cases Review Commission, the CCRC for short, who have the power in this country to ask the

higher court to re-look at cases. They say its experts have obtained a DNA profile on the victim's

clothing that matched another man.

My name is Andrew Malkinson. I was accused of rape in a woman in greater Manchester,

which I was completely innocent of, and I spent the last 17 and a half years

until the end of 2020 in prison for it, on a life sentence. I could have been released after

six years, but they wouldn't release me because I wouldn't, basically, because I wouldn't make a false

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