Rapist guilty of attack on woman that saw innocent man jailed for 17 years

Andrew Malkinson (left) served 17 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted for a rape carried out by Paul Quinn (right) (Picture: Appeal)

A rapist who kept his freedom while an innocent man spent 17 years in prison for his ‘horrific’ attack has finally been brought to justice.

Paul Quinn, 51, targeted a lone woman who was walking home alone in Little Hulton, Salford, in the early hours of July 19, 2003.

The victim, in her 30s and a mum to young children, was strangled until she passed out, beaten and twice raped in a ‘prolonged assault’ then left for dead.

Andrew Malkinson was inexplicably identified as the perpetrator by three people and jailed a year later, becoming ‘the victim a most terrible miscarriage of justice, one of the worst there has been’.

Quinn, who at the time lived less than a mile fr...