"He was someone who had little interest in what might be called news outlet websites. He very rarely visited them. But that being the case in general, the evidence shows there was one news story that did catch his eye and it was the Andrew Malkinson campaign and Mr Quinn was on to it before it became prominent in 2020."
"In September 2019, Quinn looked up a story from 2004 from the original trial, the court heard. Minutes later, he searched Google for wrongly convicted cases uk, jurors were told. Two months later he looked up an article about Malkinson on a website called the Justice Gap. This was 15 years after the event and three years before he learned of the evidence that made him a suspect."
Paul Quinn, 51, faces charges of rape, attempted strangulation, and assault in connection with a 2003 attack that resulted in Andrew Malkinson's wrongful conviction and 17-year imprisonment. Quinn was arrested in December 2022 after DNA evidence linked him to saliva on the victim's clothing. During trial at Manchester Crown Court, prosecutors presented evidence of Quinn's suspicious online behavior, including searches about the Malkinson case beginning in September 2019—three years before he became a suspect. Despite rarely visiting news websites, Quinn specifically researched the case, searched for wrongly convicted cases, and even looked up the crime scene location on Google Maps in October 2021. This pattern of targeted searches suggests Quinn's awareness and interest in the case long before his arrest.
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