A man who spent 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit has said his fight to reform the legal system's handling of miscarriages of justice is far from over.

In 2004, Andrew Malkinson, now 59, was falsely convicted by a jury at Manchester Crown Court of raping a woman in Little Hulton, Salford , and sentenced to life a minimum term of seven years.

But in 2023, after years of protesting his innocence, the conviction was quashed. Chances to free him were repeatedly missed, leading to one of the worst miscarriages of justice in UK legal history. Two of his applications in 2009 and 2020 were rejected, before fresh DNA tests were commissioned that eventually led to his release.

It later emerged that he could have been freed a decade earlier if the similarities between his case

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