It was a moment for which he had waited nearly 20 years, but when Andrew Malkinson’s exoneration finally came on Wednesday his first thought was a very prosaic one: at last he could go on holiday. “The judge said: ‘You can walk away a free man,’ and that’s when I started shaking,” he said in an interview with the Guardian after a hearing that overturned his conviction for the rape of a woman in Greater Manchester in 2003.
“My eyes welled up but I wasn’t ready to start crying. One of the first things I thought was: this means I can go away on holiday.”
