Seventeen Years – The Andrew Malkinson story

On Friday 6th June, 2026, 52-year-old Paul Quinn received a 21-year prison sentence at Manchester Crown Court. Quinn will be eligible for parole after 14 years. 

Emily was in court to watch the proceedings.

Host: Emily Dugan, special correspondent at The Sunday Times.

Further reading: Police who got Andrew Malkinson jailed face criminal investigation

Contact Emily: [email protected]

If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help:

Rape Crisis England & Wales

NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Appeal - Charity and law practice

Anyone with information can contact Greater Manchester Police on 101, or report via their website www.gmp.police.uk, quoting Operation Canopy. 

You can also anonymously call the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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In the final episode of the series Emily catches up with Andy to reflect on the continued injustice and asks if he can now finally move forward?

Host: Emily Dugan, Special correspondent at The Sunday Times.

Contact Emily: [email protected]

Read more: The rapist who partied, had children and let Andrew Malkinson rot

If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help:

Rape Crisis England & Wales

NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Appeal - Charity and law practice

Anyone with information can contact Greater Manchester Police on 101, or report via their website www.gmp.police.uk, quoting Operation Canopy. 

You can also anonymously call the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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Following the conviction of Paul Quinn, Emily meets two senior Greater Manchester Police officers to ask how the force put the wrong man in prison, leaving the real rapist to live freely for over 20 years. 

Host: Emily Dugan, Sunday Times' Special correspondent.

Contact Emily: [email protected]

Read more: The rapist who partied, had children and let Andrew Malkinson rot

If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help:

Rape Crisis England & Wales

NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Appeal - Charity and law practice

Anyone with information can contact Greater Manchester Police on 101, or report via their website www.gmp.police.uk, quoting Operation Canopy. 

You can also anonymously call the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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Justice is done, but decades late - in this special update to the series, we go to Manchester Crown Court as a jury finds 52-year-old Paul Quinn guilty of the rape for which Andy was wrongly convicted.

Hosts: Will Roe and Emily Dugan, Sunday Times' Special correspondent.

If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help:

Rape Crisis England & Wales

NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Appeal - Charity and law practice

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In July 2023, almost 20 years after he was sentenced to life in jail, Andrew Malkinson's conviction is quashed. We visit Andy a day after the Court of Appeal overturned his rape conviction following the revelation that new DNA evidence implicated another man in the crime. 

Host: Will Roe 

If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help:

Rape Crisis England & Wales

NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Appeal - Charity and law practice

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Finally, a door opens. The CCRC refers Andy’s case to the Court of Appeal, and police arrest another man. After 17 long years, could Andy finally be vindicated?

Host: Will Roe 

If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help:

Rape Crisis England & Wales

NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Appeal - Charity and law practice

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Emily meets the former wife of another suspect in the original investigation. Police failures loom as we learn of other men - some with violent histories - who were barely investigated.

Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times.

Actress: Eliza Marsland.

If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help:

Rape Crisis England & Wales

NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Appeal - Charity and law practice

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Cracks are showing in the case against Andy. Emily meets witnesses who claimed they felt pressure to testify, and learns of failures at the Criminal Cases Review Commission that may have contributed to a miscarriage of justice. 

Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times.

If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help:

Rape Crisis England & Wales

NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Appeal - Charity and law practice

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Years into Andy’s prison sentence, new forensic techniques reveal the presence of another man’s DNA at the crime scene. Emily investigates the implications of this and the challenges of reopening a long-closed case.

Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times.

Audio from HMP North Sea Camp courtesy of Two Step Films.

If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help:

Rape Crisis England & Wales

NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Appeal - Charity and law practice

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Eyewitness evidence is powerful. But it is not infallible. Emily draws on wrongful convictions abroad to explore how memory and trauma can complicate justice and what this might mean for Andy’s conviction.

Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times.

If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help:

Rape Crisis England & Wales

NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Appeal - Charity and law practice

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No DNA. Contradictory descriptions. Witnesses with hidden criminal pasts. Andy’s trial is fraught with controversy. As the jury returns a guilty verdict, Emily unpicks the flaws in the judicial system that can send an innocent man down.

Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times.

If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help:

Rape Crisis England & Wales

NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Appeal - Charity and law practice

Clips: BBC and Euronews.

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In 2003, a 33-year-old mother of two was raped and left for dead during a horrific attack in Salford, Greater Manchester. A security guard called Andrew Malkinson was arrested and later sentenced to life - despite insisting he was innocent.

Reporter Emily Dugan explores how a seemingly ordinary man became caught up in a shocking crime.

Host: Emily Dugan, social affairs correspondent at The Sunday Times.

If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help:

Rape Crisis England & Wales

NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Appeal - Charity and law practice

Clips: AP & BBC.

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A mother of two is brutally attacked, but was the wrong man sent to prison?

Andrew Malkinson was wrongfully convicted of a brutal rape and sentenced to life in prison. The Sunday Times' Emily Dugan investigates the flawed trial, unreliable witness testimony, police failings and breakthrough DNA evidence that turned the case on its head.

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