Andrew Malkinson accuser ‘wasn’t too sure it was the right man’, court told

Malkinson spent 17 years in prison after being wrongly convicted in rape case for which another man is now on trial A woman who alleged she was raped by Andrew Malkinson admitted to police 22 years ago that she “wasn’t too sure it was the right man”, a court has heard. Malkinson spent 17 years in prison for an attack he did not commit in what jurors heard was a “most terrible” miscarriage of justice. Paul Quinn is now on trial at Manchester crown court accused of the 2003 rape after fresh DNA tests allegedly linked him to the victim. Quinn’s barrister, Lisa Wilding KC, said the complainant had told Malkinson’s trial in 2004 that she was “more than 100% sure” that he was the attacker. “At no stage after that day in 2004 did you go to the police and say: ‘I’ve got that wrong,’” the barrister said. The witness replied: “I did,” adding: “I can’t remember which one it was. At one of the trials I remember telling one of them that I wasn’t too sure it was the right man and they said: ‘Don’t worry, it’s just trial nerves, it will all be OK.’ I remember telling this to Helen, the detective.” The woman, who cannot be identified, told jurors she