Four retired Greater Manchester Police officers under investigation after innocent man Andrew Malkinson wrongly spent 17 years in jail
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFour retired GMP officers are under investigation after a man spent 17 years in jail when wrongly committed of a Salford rape.
A police watchdog has also revealed the allegations against the force it is scrutinising after "one of the worst missacarriages of justice in British history" One of the officers has been told that they are under criminal investigation for potential misconduct in public office and perverting the course of justice in relation to their actions during the police investigation and subsequent trial.
As reported in the Manchester Evening News in July Andrew Malkinson was "failed" by a miscarriage of justice review body and could have been cleared ten years earlier, a damning report found.
A 105-page report by Chris Henley KC, found that the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) could have spared Mr Malkinson a decade of wrongful imprisonment if it had not “missed” the opportunity to send his case back to the Court of Appeal in 2009, when DNA evidence made clear “he might be innocent”.
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