In 2004, Andrew Malkinson was sentenced to life in prison for a crime he didn't commit.
Now another man has been convicted of the brutal rape in Greater Manchester,
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I'm Emily Dugan from The Sunday Times, and I 've been investigating one of the biggest miscarriages
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From The Times and The Sunday Times, this is The Story.
I'm Manveen Rana.
On January the 10th, 2025, Jane Coates was expecting her daughter,
Lucy Harrison, to return from a holiday in Texas with her boyfriend, Sam Littler.
They 'd spent Christmas there, visiting Lucy's father,
Chris, in a little town called Prosper, an appropriate name for an affluent suburb in Texas.
Before going to bed, Jane received a text message from Lucy saying she was all packed up.
Jane typed back, I'm going to bed now.
Let me know if you want me to pick you and Sam up from the airport.
Love you lots.
With that, she went to sleep.
But just a few hours later, she was suddenly woken up.
It was about two o'clock in the morning and I was woken up to bangs, went down the stairs and it was Sam's mum,
Helen, and she kind of shouted through the door,