How could an innocent man spend 17 years in prison?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Malkinson spent 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
Yesterday the Court of Appeal finally cleared his name.
It is a failure so serious, so unthinkable it barely makes sense. But today Mr Malkinson laid the blame firmly at the door of the police who- he says- concealed and destroyed evidence to mask their mistake.
Why isn't this a crime? And what should happen now? We ask a former Director of Public Prosecution, Lord Ken Macdonald.
Later, we look at the curious, budding relationship between Italy's hard-right prime minister Giorgia Meloni and America's President Joe Biden as they meet for talks at the White House.
And - we bring you the letter written to Nadine Dorries ... from a town council in Mid Beds.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | I came to the police station in 2003 and told the officers I was innocent. |
| 0:19.9 | They didn't believe me. I came to the Crown Court |
| 0:23.6 | in Manchester in 2004 and told the jury I was innocent. They didn't believe me. |
| 0:30.6 | I came to this appeal court in 2006 and told them I was innocent. They didn't believe me. I applied to the criminal |
| 0:42.0 | cases review commission, which is supposed to investigate miscarriages of justice, and tell them I was |
| 0:49.6 | innocent. They didn't investigate and they didn't believe me. |
| 0:56.3 | Today we told this court I was innocent and finally they listened. |
| 1:03.2 | But I have been innocent all along. |
| 1:06.3 | This is as close as we're ever going to get to a real life Shawshank Redemption plotline, |
| 1:11.8 | because this is the story of an innocent man who spent 17 years in jail for a rape he did not commit. |
| 1:20.2 | He had the chance to lessen his sentence with a guilty plea. |
| 1:24.1 | He says that would have been unthinkable. |
| 1:27.2 | And despite his repeated insistence of his innocence, |
| 1:30.5 | or actually because of it, his seven-year sentence was lengthened by another decade. Today, we'll |
| 1:38.9 | ask how the police got this so wrong, how the system allowed it to happen and what should happen now to help him. |
| 1:47.9 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:52.4 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:54.3 | It's Emily in Newsagents HQ and a little bit later I'll be talking to Lewis and we'll be discussing |
| 2:00.6 | Georgio Maloney, |
| 2:01.6 | the Italian Prime Minister's meeting with Joe Biden and just what a sort of strange |
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