Overview
- Paul Quinn, 51, pleads not guilty to two counts of rape, grievous bodily harm and attempting to strangle the victim.
- Jurors heard his 2022 police interview in which he denied the attack and suggested a promiscuous past could account for the DNA.
- Forensic scientists reported a DNA profile on the victim’s vest top, said to be saliva, with a reported chance of error of about a billion to one.
- Quinn’s former wife told the court he returned home without a shirt on the night of the 2003 assault.
- The case, brought after his 2022 arrest following new DNA testing, is before Manchester Crown Court and has been adjourned.