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"I was kidnapped by the state" - Innocent man who spent 17 years in jail for a rape he didn't commit slams justice system that failed him

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An innocent man who spent 17 years behind bars for a rape he didn't commit has said he was 'kidnapped by the state' after appeal court judges quashed his conviction.

Andrew Malkinson, 57, always denied carrying out the violent attack on a woman by the M61 motorway in Little Hulton, Salford, in July 2003.

The following year he was jailed for life with a minimum term of seven years, but remained in prison for a further 10 because he maintained he was innocent.

He was convicted solely because of identification evidence - the victim picked him out in an identity procedure as did two other alleged eye-witnesses.

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