This week I found myself in line at the local foodbank

Struggle to get by for victim of 'appalling miscarriage of justice'

- CHRIS SLATER

A MAN who spent 17 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit says he is living on benefits and has been forced to use his local foodbank as he awaits compensation for his wrongful conviction.

Andrew Malkinson, now 57, was 37 when he was found guilty - on February 10, 2004 - by a 10-2 majority of carrying out a violent sex attack on a woman by the M61 motorway in Little Hulton, Salford.

In July last year, the Court of Appeal overturned his conviction after forensic testing linked another man to the crime. Mr Malkinson says he is 'in urgent need of mental health support from clinicians who would at last recognise what [he has] been through in the past 20 years.

He says that despite people saying he would be owed millions in compensation, he is living in poverty.