‘Catalogue of failures’: watchdog missed chances to help Andrew Malkinson, report finds

Criminal Cases Review Commission could have exonerated Malkinson of rape almost a decade earlier, says inquiry

A report on the Criminal Cases Review Commission's handling of the Andrew Malkinson case has laid bare a catalogue of failures", finding that he could have been exonerated almost a decade earlier.

The review by Chris Henley KC found that the watchdog missed multiple opportunities to help Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail for a 2003 stranger rape he did not commit.