Police knew that another man's DNA was on the clothes of a woman Andrew Malkinson was falsely jailed for raping, 13 years before he was released from prison.
'Prison is hell even if you're guilty': Man wrongly jailed for rape tells LBC of 17-year ordeal behind barsThe CCRC did not get more forensic tests or refer the case for appeal in 2012. Information in the case files suggest it was worried about costs.
Mr Malkinson's solicitor Emily Bolton, director of the Appeal charity, said: "The documents are a shocking chronicle of how Andy was utterly failed by the body which should have put an end to his wrongful conviction nightmare, but instead acted as a barrier to justice."An overhaul of the CCRC is needed to prevent it failing other innocent prisoners."
He added: "The CCRC's internal comments show that in deciding not to commission any DNA testing, cost was at the forefront of their considerations. That decision may have saved the CCRC some money, but it came at a brutal cost for both Andy and the victim."The CCRC has been giving the false impression that a DNA breakthrough could not have been achieved by them sooner.
"I feel an apology is the least I am owed, but it seems like the very body set up to address the system's fallibility is labouring under the delusion that it is itself infallible. How many more people has it failed?"
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