LONDON: A rapist who escaped justice in the UK for more than 20 years while an innocent man served a life sentence for the crime was finally jailed on Friday.
“You sat back and enjoyed your liberty at the expense of an innocent man,” judge Robert Bright told Paul Quinn, 52, as he jailed him for 21 years for the 2003 rape and strangulation of a young mother as she walked home in the early hours.
Andrew Malkinson, 60, who always protested his innocence, spent 17 years in prison after being wrongly convicted in 2004.
He was released from prison in 2020 after DNA testing showed he could not have been the perpetrator and the Court of Appeal formally overturned his conviction in 2023.
