Helen Pitcher says she is best person for job despite direct criticism in review of wrongful conviction case
The chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission has rejected calls from the justice secretary to resign after a report on its handling of the Andrew Malkinson case laid bare “a catalogue of failures”.
A review by Chris Henley KC found that Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail for a 2003 stranger rape he did not commit, could have been exonerated almost a decade earlier. It also contained personal criticism of the watchdog’s chair, Helen Pitcher, for failing to apologise and for “taking too little responsibility”.