Andrew Malkinson says he was 'kidnapped' for 17 years after prison sentence overturned — Transcript
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- 0:00on the 2nd of August 2003 I was
- 0:02kidnapped by the state
- 0:06it has taken nearly 20 years to persuade
- 0:09my kidnappers to let me go
- 0:1217 years four months and 16 days of that
- 0:15time
- 0:16was spent in prison
- 0:20at every parole here and I sat before a
- 0:22panel who shook their heads at me
- 0:24considering me to be dangerous
- 0:27and all that time the real perpetrator
- 0:29the real dangerous person was free
- 0:36more recently I was allowed to leave
- 0:37prison but with my name on the sex
- 0:39offenders register
- 0:41and under tight supervision by police
- 0:43and probation I was not free
- 0:47but now I have finally been exonerated I
- 0:50am left outside this court without an
- 0:53apology
- 0:55without an explanation
- 0:58jobless
- 0:59homeless expected to Simply slip back
- 1:03into the world
- 1:04with no acknowledgment of the gaping
- 1:06black hole that they opened up in my
- 1:08life
- 1:10a black hole that loons so large behind
- 1:12me even here today that I fear it will
- 1:15swallow me up
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