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United Kingdom·Human Rights

British man sentenced to 21 years for 2003 rape after another wrongly imprisoned for 17 years

Saturday, 6 June 2026, 06:58 · 1 min read

Paul Quinn, 52, has been sentenced to 21 years in prison in the United Kingdom for a brutal 2003 rape in Little Hulton (a suburb of Greater Manchester), in a case described as one of Britain's worst miscarriages of justice. Andrew Malkinson was wrongly convicted of the same crime and spent 17 years in prison before his conviction was finally quashed in 2023, when new DNA evidence linked Quinn — a convicted sex offender who had lived near the crime scene at the time — to the attack. Malkinson, who received a six-figure compensation payout, criticised the sentence as too lenient, saying it was an insult that a guilty man received a lighter punishment than he, an innocent one, had served.

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NOS Nieuws21 jaar cel voor Brit in verkrachtingszaak waar andere man 17 jaar voor vastzat ↗︎
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