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Andy Malkinson, who served 17 years behind bars for a rape he did not commit, may have to pay thousands of pounds to the prison service for 'board and lodgings', he has said. The 57-year-old was found guilty of raping a woman in Salford in 2003 and the next year was jailed for life with a minimum term of seven years.
His conviction was quashed by senior judges at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday after DNA evidence linking another man to the crime came to light. But he has now revealed he may have to pay for the cost of food and accommodation while he was behind bars.
The money will be deducted from whatever compensation he receives for wrongful imprisonment. It's understood it's been standard practice in miscarriage of justice cases since the Criminal Appeal Act 1995 came into force.
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Speaking on BBC Radio 4 this morning, Mr Malkinson said: "Somehow the prison service has lobbied the Government in the early 2000s.
"The result is that even if you fight tooth and nail and gain compensation you then have to pay the prison service a large chunk of that for so-called 'board and lodgings', which is so abhorrent to me. I am sickened by it."
Mr Malkinson served 10 more years behind bars because he maintained his innocence. He told the BBC the extra time behind bars took an 'extremely heavy toll' on his psyche and that he 'contemplated suicide many times'.
He told how he did consider lying and saying he had committed the crime in order to get out of prison, but described that as a 'hollow choice'.
He added: "Getting out involves taking part in group therapy. Discussing with other rapists, murderers, paedophiles and discuss what
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