![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/man-jailed-for-rape-he-didnt-commit-says-hes-now-too-scared-to-even-hug-a-woman/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1_Sunday-Mirror-ExclusiveText-Patrick-Hill-Innocent-prisoner-Andy-MalkinsonReleased-after-17-year.jpg&description=Andy Malkinson was wrongly convicted in 2004 spending more than 17 years in jail and, even since his release, has feared he'll be seen as a pariah to the rest of society A man who spent 17 years in jail after he was wrongly convicted of rape is now jobless, branded the "worst names possible" on the street and is too scared to even hug a woman. Police admitted "the justice system failed" Andy Malkinson, now 57, as, despite not a single piece of forensic evidence linking him to the crime, he was caged for life for the sex attack in 2004. Mr Malkinson did not even match the initial description of the attacker given by the victim, who was dragged down a motorway embankment and raped in Salford, Greater Manchester. Yet, even after the miscarriage of justice and Mr Malkinson's release from jail in 2020, he was told he would have to pay for his 'board and lodgings' in jail. Sunday Mirror revealed yesterday that a swift U-turn had been made on that decision after public uproar. But nevertheless, Mr Malkinson, who has left the UK altogether now for a new life in The Netherlands, said: "I want everyone to know what can happen and what does happen. It was a terrible, terrible thing they did. "I've had this weird thing of being observed, feeling under surveillance, but... I can't never speak to a woman again. That would be absurd," he told MailOnline. Mr Malkinson, from Grimsby, Lincolnshire, said he feels he may be "too damaged" to have a relationship again. He's also been called "f*****g nonce, dirty rapist, women hater... All of the negative, most spiteful things human beings come out with." Twice, the man applied to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the body charged with investigating miscarriages of justice, but his case was rejected. This was after, in 2017, he received a letter from a small legal charity called Appeal, saying they would take on his case. Prior to that, Mr Malkinson admitted he considered suicide in jail. The former security guard, who now fears he'll){kind=link}
Andy Malkinson was wrongly convicted in 2004 spending more than 17 years in jail and, even since his release, has feared he’ll be seen as a pariah to the rest of society
A man who spent 17 years in jail after he was wrongly convicted of rape is now jobless, branded the “worst names possible” on the street and is too scared to even hug a woman.
Police admitted “the justice system failed” Andy Malkinson, now 57, as, despite not a single piece of forensic evidence linking him to the crime, he was caged for life for the sex attack in 2004.
Mr Malkinson did not even match the initial description of the attacker given by the victim, who was dragged down a motorway embankment and raped in Salford, Greater Manchester.
Yet, even after the miscarriage of justice and Mr Malkinson’s release from jail in 2020, he was told he would have to pay for his “board and lodgings” in jail. Sunday Mirror revealed yesterday that a swift U-turn had been made on that decision after public uproar.