Evening briefing on Friday 5th June

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0:35This is your Times Evening Briefing on Friday 5th June. The rapist at the centre of one of the country's most notorious miscarriages of justice has been jailed for 21 years. 52-year-old Paul Quinn violently raped and strangled a young mother in Salford in 2003. Andrew Malkinson wrongly served 17 years in prison before new DNA evidence proved his innocence. Sentencing Quinn, Mr Justice Bright said he'd inflicted evil on his rape victim and on Mr Malkinson. It must have preyed on your conscience that another man was in prison, in effect serving your sentence. It certainly should have preyed on your conscience, but you were only too willing to sit back and take advantage of his misfortune.

1:20Mr Malkinson, who's now 60, was convicted after being picked out at a police identity parade. He was released in 2020 and had his conviction quashed in 2023. Ahead of today's sentencing, he spoke to the Sunday Times' early Duggan. He said he still lives with the injustice every day. I mean, I'm in a far better position than I've been, obviously. But no, it's very tiring. It's exhausting psychologically, but I have to keep going. And they've made this unnecessary struggle. 17 years, the Andrew Malkinson story from the Times can be found on all podcast platforms. Andy Burnham's promised to slash business rates if he becomes Prime Minister, the first major policy announcement of his Labour leadership bid.

2:08The Mayor of Greater Manchester says rates for pubs would be cut by 20 % and rates for cafes, shops and hairdressers would be abolished, paid for by increasing taxes for online tech giants. Earlier, spokesman for Sakir Starmer insisted he wasn't going anywhere. Elsewhere, Downing Street says Britain and America's relationship remains incredibly strong despite a spinging rebuke from the US State Department about UK policing. It claimed officers handcuffing murder victim Henry Novak after his Sikh killer accused him of racism was evidence of two-tier policing. It comes as three more people have been charged over violent disorder in Southampton.

2:45Meanwhile, many Sikhs in the city say they're living in fear after the unrest. The Times reporter Will Humphreys is there. A spokeswoman for the Gudwara Khalsa Daba here in Southampton told me the community was feeling victimised with people scared to come out of their houses. She said one person was told you don't need to be here while in a supermarket and another working in a care home had someone refused to be cared for by them because they wear a turban. The families of those killed in the Nottingham attack say they expect more to come out about the killings as an inquiry has wrapped up. Valdo Calicane had been sectioned four times before he killed three people during a violent rampage in the city.

3:27The mother of Barnaby Webber, Emma, says their fight will go on. It's been bruising, brutal, heart-wrenching, tragic, sickening. How many weeks? 16 weeks. But we fought really, really hard to get this. And in cricket, after tea on the second day of the first test at Lord's, Jamie Smith has calmly steered England past a lead of 200 runs against New Zealand. Before the break, the hosts lost four wickets for one run in dramatic collapse. They're currently 187 for seven with a lead of 214 runs. And you can follow the Times Radio News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online. That's your Times Evening Briefing on Friday the 5th of June.

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