Police withheld evidence making man’s rape conviction unsafe, says UK court

Judgment rules jury's verdict may have been different' in case of Andrew Malkinson if defence had been given full facts

The conviction of a man who spent 17 years behind bars for a rape he did not commit was unsafe because police withheld crucial information from his defence lawyers, the court of appeal has found.

Andrew Malkinson was wrongly convicted of raping, beating and strangling a woman in 2003 after he was picked out of a police lineup, despite not matching the victim's description of the attacker.