Bright: Quinn revisited old news article about Malkinson convictionpublished at 14:30 BST
Andrew Malkinson’s attempts to get his conviction overturned didn’t gain much publicity until his release, the judge says.
A journalist who championed his cause published her first article on the subject in 2020, he explains, which was followed by “increasing media coverage” – with Malkinson’s successful appeal in 2023.
The judge says it’s “notable” that in 2019, Quinn visited an old news story about Malkinson’s conviction. “You were interested in his story when few other people were,” Mr Justice Bright says.
On the same day, he searched for “wrongly convicted cases UK”. “Very few people then thought that Mr Malkinson had been wrongly convicted,” the judge says.
He says the prosecution has relied on those mentioned internet searches – who say it “demonstrated that you were aware, all along, that Mr Malkinson had been convicted of the offences committed”.
“And you were also aware, all along, that he had been wrongly convicted. Because those offences, were in fact committed by you,” he continues.
