Justice is done after a shocking wrongful conviction - The Saturday Story
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🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Yesterday afternoon in Manchester, a man was found guilty of a brutal rape for which an innocent person had been wrongly jailed for more than 17 years. We bring you a special update to our groundbreaking podcast series Seventeen Years - The Andrew Malkinson Story, which first highlighted this tragic miscarriage of justice.
You can listen to the full series on The Times Investigates feed: https://pod.fo/e/3256f8
Hosts: Will Roe & Emily Dugan, Sunday Times' Special correspondent.
Producer: Will Roe.
Clips: Greater Manchester Police.
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| 0:00.0 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story on Saturday. I'm Manvine Rana. |
| 0:10.0 | Yesterday, a jury in Manchester convicted a man called Paul Quinn of a historic rape that took place in Little Houlton in Salford. |
| 0:23.5 | It was a horrific crime, but it was also the same crime for which another man, Andrew |
| 0:30.1 | Malkinson, was wrongfully convicted back in 2004. Andrew spent 17 years in prison. It's one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history, |
| 0:48.7 | and it was brought to national attention by the Sunday Times and our podcast series 17 years, The Andrew |
| 0:56.5 | Malcanson story, which we first released in 2021. Do go back and have a listen to the full series |
| 1:03.9 | on the Times Investigates Feed, Season 5. Right now, we have a new episode in the series, |
| 1:10.4 | and for that, I'm handing over to my colleagues, the Sunday Times special correspondent Emily Dugan and the series producer Will Row. |
| 1:25.7 | Before we begin, this episode contains discussions of rape and assault. |
| 1:31.4 | Last time, on 17 years, the Andrew Malkinson story. |
| 1:35.8 | We have no doubt that the new evidence shows these convictions to be unsafe. |
| 1:43.5 | And all that time, the real perpetrator, |
| 1:46.0 | the real dangerous person, was free. |
| 1:49.8 | Last year, Greater Manchester Police arrested a man on suspicion of rape |
| 1:54.5 | for the same crime Andy was convicted of. |
| 1:57.9 | Do you blame Greater Manchester Police for what happened to you? |
| 2:01.2 | Yes, definitely. Yeah, absolutely. There's a blame. |
| 2:08.3 | I'm outside Manchester Crown Court, and it's finally stopped draining. |
| 2:16.6 | And the most extraordinary thing has just happened. |
| 2:20.2 | That's Emily Dugan, the Sunday Times' special correspondent. |
| 2:25.0 | Where finally the right man has been found guilty of the crime |
| 2:30.4 | that Andrew Malkinson spent 17 years in prison for. |
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