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Seventeen Years - The Andrew Malkinson story
The Sunday Times
Frequency: 1 episode/168d. Total Eps: 11
A mother of two is brutally attacked, but is the wrong man sent to prison?
Hosted by the award-winning journalist, Emily Dugan.
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The man the police missed (Pt 10)
Episode 10
lundi 27 avril 2026 • Duration 37:38
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: Emily.dugan@thesundaytimes.co.uk
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:
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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April 2026 UPDATE - The real perpetrator (Pt 9)
Episode 9
vendredi 17 avril 2026 • Duration 40:35
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:
NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault
Criminal Cases Review Commission
Appeal - Charity and law practice
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Introducing: Seventeen Years - the Andrew Malkinson story
vendredi 17 septembre 2021 • Duration 01:21
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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Innocent (Pt 8)
Episode 8
mardi 1 août 2023 • Duration 34:21
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:
NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault
Criminal Cases Review Commission
Appeal - Charity and law practice
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February 2023 UPDATE - A breakthrough (Pt 7)
Episode 7
vendredi 3 février 2023 • Duration 20:11
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:
NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault
Criminal Cases Review Commission
Appeal - Charity and law practice
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Police failings (Pt 6)
Episode 6
jeudi 28 octobre 2021 • Duration 33:23
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:
NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault
Criminal Cases Review Commission
Appeal - Charity and law practice
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'Forced' to testify? (Pt 5)
Episode 5
jeudi 21 octobre 2021 • Duration 31:19
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:
NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault
Criminal Cases Review Commission
Appeal - Charity and law practice
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Forensics (Pt 4)
Episode 4
jeudi 14 octobre 2021 • Duration 28:12
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:
NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault
Criminal Cases Review Commission
Appeal - Charity and law practice
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Witness testimony (Pt 3)
Episode 3
jeudi 7 octobre 2021 • Duration 27:15
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:
NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault
Criminal Cases Review Commission
Appeal - Charity and law practice
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The trial (Pt 2)
Episode 2
jeudi 30 septembre 2021 • Duration 39:23
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:
NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault
Criminal Cases Review Commission
Appeal - Charity and law practice
Clips: BBC and Euronews.
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