An innocent man who served 17 years behind bars for a rape he did not commit has been cleared by the Court of Appeal.

Andrew Malkinson, 57, was found guilty of raping a woman in Greater Manchester in 2003 and the following year he was jailed for life with a minimum term of seven years.

His conviction was overturned on Wednesday but he said has been left “without an apology”.

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