Few who have heard Andrew Malkinson speak about his ordeal of spending 17 years in jail, having been convicted in 2004 for an extraordinarily violent rape of which he was entirely innocent, could fail to be moved by his suffering, or by the compassion he displayed to the victim, who had incorrectly identified him in a dodgy police investigation: “I am so sorry if my fight for the truth, as I knew it to be, has caused you extra trauma.”
Malkinson, in fact, could have been released after seven years (that was the “minimum” tariff of his sentence) had he played the game of “addressing your offending behaviour” by attending group therapy sessions in prison. He said that he could not bear to take
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