Andy Malkinson: DNA warnings made years before rape case overturned

The body that investigates potential wrongful convictions was warned it could have missed critical DNA evidence in rape cases, a year after first rejecting Andy Malkinson’s appeal.

The warning came in 2013, when a review of a similar case recommended the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) look again at files for DNA leads.

Mr Malkinson’s rape conviction was not overturned until a decade later.

His lawyers say the report is evidence he could have been exonerated earlier.