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39 Post Office convictions quashed after Fujitsu evidence about Horizon IT platform called into question

Japanese firm has a reckoning to face Gareth Corfield Fri 23 Apr 2021 // 14:15 UTC Share Copy Post Office employees were wrongly prosecuted by the company as a direct result of it covering up software bugs in its Horizon IT system, the Court of Appeal has said as it quashed 39 convictions this morning. Those 39 convictions were obtained by the Post Office s in-house lawyers who ignored their own barristers advice that the institution s behaviour was trampling over established prosecutorial codes intended to promote fairness and honesty. Lord Justice Holroyde said that the one-time state monopoly had, by representing Horizon as reliable, effectively sought to reverse the burden of proof, leading to criminal defendants having to prove their innocence instead of the Post Office showing they were guilty. Its lawyers compounded this by withholding evidence from courts and defence lawyers alike – evidence which clearly showed the Post Office and Fujitsu

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Relief and anger as subpostmasters finally have their convictions overturned

By Press Association 2021 Tom Hedges celebrates There were cheers, tears and even a few bottles popped outside the Royal Courts of Justice after dozens of former subpostmasters won a long-running battle to clear their names. Hundreds of subpostmasters were prosecuted for theft, fraud and false accounting because of the Post Office’s defective Horizon accounting system, which had “bugs, defects and errors” from the very outset. The Post Office knew that there were “serious issues about the reliability” of the Fujitsu-developed IT system, which was rolled out to branches in 2000, but continued to bring “serious criminal charges against the subpostmasters on the basis of Horizon data”, the Court of Appeal said on Friday.

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Post Office workers convicted of theft due to faulty software have names cleared

The Fujitsu-developed system, used for accounting and stockpiling, was used as evidence to successfully prosecute 736 people between 2000 and 2014, out of which 42 maintained their innocence for over a decade. It would later emerge that a system bug had produced financial shortfalls in branch accounts, resulting in unaccounted funds. Many falsely convicted Post Office employees had their personal lives destroyed as a consequence of the convictions, having been sent to prison and denied insurance in many cases. Some have since passed away, unable to hear today’s verdict. However, following years of legal battles, Lord Justice Holroyde at the Royal Courts of Justice in London said the Post Office knew there were serious issues about the reliability of Horizon and had a clear duty to investigate the system s flaws.

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Post Office scandal: Dozens of staff will find out today if their convictions have been quashed

Post Office scandal: Dozens of staff will find out today if their convictions have been quashed
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Compensation bill for victims of Post Office s Horizon IT scandal could run into tens of millions

Compensation bill for victims of Post Office s Horizon IT scandal could run into tens of millions
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