Postmasters branded crooks saw their convictions quashed yesterday after one of Britain’s biggest miscarriages of justice.
In a victory for the Daily Mail, six ex-Post Office staff became the first victims of the Horizon IT scandal to have their sentences formally overturned.
They said the decision finally lets them ‘hold their heads high’.
Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of postmasters were prosecuted for false accounting, fraud and theft after money appeared to go missing from their branch accounts.
Six ex-Post Office staff became the first victims of the Horizon IT scandal to have their sentences formally overturned at London’s Southwark Crown Court on Friday
It only took 16 years in some cases but we re getting there
Gareth Corfield Fri 11 Dec 2020 // 16:25 UTC Share
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Six former Post Office subpostmasters caught up in the Horizon scandal have become the first to have their names formally cleared after the Court of Appeal quashed their wrongful criminal convictions.
The decision, made by Her Honour Judge Deborah Taylor sitting at Southwark Crown Court this morning, saw six people cleared of criminal convictions the Post Office obtained by relying on its dodgy Horizon IT system.
Journalist Nick Wallis, who has been tirelessly following the case for years, tweeted the judge’s ruling this morning.