Serial killer Levi Bellfield being investigated over 2 more notorious hammer attack murders
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West London serial Levi Bellfield is reportedly being investigated in connection to the 1996 murders of Lin and Megan Russell.
Former postmasters cleared in Horizon IT case Print
14th May 2021
Two former postmasters have been formally acquitted at Southwark Crown Court today (14 May 2021) in uncontested appeals in the Horizon IT case.
The cases from 2001 and 2006, which were referred to the court by the Criminal Cases Review Commission in January 2021, relate to convictions in magistrates’ courts in which Post Office acted as prosecutor.
A Post Office spokesman said: “Post Office sincerely is extremely sorry for historical failures and the impact these have had on the lives of people affected.
“We are taking determined action to fully address the past and have undertaken wholesale reforms to prevent such events ever happening again.”
BBC News
By Colletta Smith
image captionParmod Kalia went to jail for six months
A father-of-four who hid his prison sentence from his closest family is one of two more former sub-postmasters whose convictions have been quashed.
Parmod Kalia s mother and sister knew nothing of his 20-year nightmare after being accused of theft.
Former Post Office worker Oyeteju Adedayo also had her name cleared on Friday at Southwark Crown Court.
A total of 47 people have now been cleared in the UK s most widespread miscarriage of justice.
Hundreds more are now expected to have their names cleared as they were prosecuted based on evidence from the flawed Horizon system the Post Office installed in branches.
By Melanie Newman17 May 2021
Janet Skinner was 35 and a divorced mother of two teenage children in 2007 when she was accused of stealing almost £60,000 from the busy post office she ran on a council estate in Hull.
Last month she was one of 39 former postmasters cleared of similar offences after it emerged the Post Office had failed to disclose that a defective computer system installed at their branches was generating ‘phantom’ transactions. Initially charged with theft, Skinner pleaded guilty to false accounting despite knowing she had not taken the money. Her lawyer had advised this as her best hope of avoiding a custodial sentence.
Killer of mum and daughter may be cleared after missing clue found in police station
Michael Stone has served 24 years in jail for murdering mum Lin, 45, Megan, six, but has always denied the killings in Chillenden, Kent, in 1996 as DNA evidence resurfaces
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