Rebecca Filletti Represents Defendant in Trial Relating to Andrew Malkinson Miscarriage of Justice Case
Rebecca Filletti, alongside Catherine Oborne, led by Lisa Wilding KC, and instructed by Peter Seigne of Trinity Advocates, represented Paul Quinn in the recently concluded two-month trial before Mr Justice Bright at Manchester Crown Court.
The trial focussed on an attack upon a woman in 2003 in Little Hulton, Manchester. This being the offence for which Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison, was famously tried and convicted of in 2004 in what the Crown termed ‘a terrible miscarriage of justice’.
Mr Quinn denied rape, strangulation and grievous bodily harm. The case against him was primarily based on very complex DNA & historic telephone evidence. The management of the disclosure was a significant task given the production of information from the initial inquiry/ investigation from 25 years ago, documents from the multiple times that the Malkinson case came before the Court of Appeal and then of course the current most recent investigation. The defendant was convicted at the conclusion of this very difficult trial and is now due to be sentenced next month.
The case was subject to considerable public interest and has been very widely reported in the national media.
For more information, or to instruct Rebecca Filletti, please contact Criminal Clerk David Gibbons.