A man wrongfully served 17 years for rape. Now another man has been convicted

A man wrongfully served 17 years for rape. Now another man has been convicted 1 hour agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleDominic CascianiHome and legal correspondentBBCAndrew Malkinson, left, was wrongly blamed for the attack; now Paul Quinn, right, is facing jail following a month-long trialIn the early hours of 19 July 2003, a 33-year-old mother of two was walking home alone through a semi-rural part of Salford after a blazing row with her boyfriend.As she came to Little Hulton, a tight-knit community, she heard a male voice call out from the bushes. The man said he had a gun.She hurried away, texting her boyfriend. Soon she realised she was being followed by a man.He was wearing a white shirt that was unbuttoned. The man caught up with her by a motorway bridge.What followed was an appalling attack. He dragged the woman down an embankment and strangled her unconscious. He then struck her face, fracturing her cheekbone so severely she needed surgery.When the woman came to, it was apparent to her - and later doctors - that she had been raped. Police and prosecutors initially classified the crime as attempted murder.The 2003 attack happened in a semi-rural part of SalfordFor 20 years, Andy Malkinson was blamed for the attack in one of the worst miscarriages of justice this century, serving 17 years in prison.But now 52-year-old Paul Quinn is facing jail following a month-long trial after he was found guilty of rape, strangulation and grievous bodily harm.The delay in identifying Quinn came after detectives fixated on the wrong man.Malkinson, from Grimsby, was living temporarily in the area because of a short-term job.Police saw him as the prime suspect purely because he had been stopped by two officers some time earlier. They thought he matched the victim's description.Quinn, meanwhile, lived on the Kenyon Way estate, a few minutes' walk from where the woman was first stalked."Nobody came forward with any information in 2003, or during the span of th...