By Neil Hickman2021-04-29T11:10:00+01:00
With the quashing of the convictions of 39 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses, and the Post Office promising to compensate all those who lost money, reputation, and more in the Horizon scandal, we are no doubt due for another of the regular orgies of self-congratulation about the Wonders of British Justice.
Forgive me if I do not join in the rejoicing. It seems to me that a familiar script is playing out.
The Post Office fought tooth and nail to avoid accepting that there could be any problem with the Horizon accounting system, to the extent that the judge in the High Court, Mr Justice Fraser, remarked in exasperation that the Post Office’s approach was 'the 21st century equivalent of maintaining that the earth is flat'.