Andrew Malkinson: Man wrongly jailed for 17 years hits out at 'lying police' — Transcript

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1. 0:02This is a case about a man who was
2. 0:03guilty until proven innocent. Andrew
3. 0:07Malkinson always maintained that it
4. 0:09wasn't he who violently raped a woman in
5. 0:12Manchester 20 years ago.
6. 0:15But a jury had found otherwise. Their
7. 0:17verdict based on identification
8. 0:19evidence, not DNA or forensics.
9. 0:23When a jury finds you guilty when you
10. 0:25are innocent,
11. 0:27reality does not change.
12. 0:30You know you did not commit the crime.
13. 0:35But all the people around you start
14. 0:36living in a false fantasy universe
15. 0:39and treat you as if you are guilty.
16. 0:43On the 2nd of August 2003, I was
17. 0:45kidnapped
18. 0:46by the state.
19. 0:49It has taken nearly 20 years to persuade
20. 0:51my kidnappers to let me go.
21. 0:54In that time, he made three attempts to
22. 0:57appeal, each one denied.
23. 1:00The body which refers cases to the Court
24. 1:02of Appeal dismissed his application to
25. 1:04investigate DNA evidence, not once, but
26. 1:08twice. He spent nearly three times the
27. 1:11specified period
28. 1:14imprisoned
29. 1:16because he would not
30. 1:18falsely confess
31. 1:19to abhorrent crimes which he did not
32. 1:23commit.
33. 1:24Today, Mr. Malkinson's lawyers argued
34. 1:26his conviction be quashed not just
35. 1:27because of the new DNA evidence, but
36. 1:30also because of the way in which he was
37. 1:32convicted in the first place. They say
38. 1:34there were failings in both the trial
39. 1:36and appeals processes and a denial of
40. 1:38disclosure, which means members of the
41. 1:40jury didn't have the full picture when
42. 1:42they delivered the guilty verdict.
43. 1:46Today, the Crown Prosecution called it
44. 1:48sad that evidence came too late. Greater
45. 1:51Manchester Police have now interviewed
46. 1:53the man whose DNA does match that found
47. 1:56on the victim's clothes. Their
48. 1:58investigation in that matter continues.
49. 2:01But on Andrew Malkinson, the force said
50. 2:03it is sorry for a grave miscarriage of
51. 2:05justice. It was a litany of failures by
52. 2:08Greater Manchester Police. The
53. 2:09Independent Office of Police Conduct
54. 2:11will review this matter. Uh and if there
55. 2:14are shortcomings, then I think it's
56. 2:15important to consider criminal
57. 2:18criminal investigation.
58. 2:21At last exonerated, Mr. Malkinson will
59. 2:23now have his name removed from the sex
60. 2:26offenders register.
61. 2:27He has found justice, perhaps, but
62. 2:30Andrew Malkinson is still looking for
63. 2:33answers. Sadiya Chowdhury, Sky News, at
64. 2:36the Court of Appeal in London.