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By Press Association 2021
Post Office court case
The Post Office must “do the right thing” and provide compensation to former subpostmasters wrongly convicted of offences, their solicitor has said.
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.
But on Friday, 39 former subpostmasters who were convicted and even jailed based on Horizon data had their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal.
Neil Hudgell, who represented 29 of those who were cleared, said the scandal was “probably the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK legal history” in terms of the number of people affected and its duration.
File photo dated 23/04/21 of former post office workers celebrating outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, after their convictions were overturned by the Court of Appeal. Neil Hudgell, who represented 29 of the cleared subpostmasters, has told BBC CONOR McGinn, the MP for St Helens North, has called for a public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal after 39 former subpostmasters had their names cleared in court this week. At a hearing last month, the court heard subpostmasters’ lives were “irreparably ruined” as they lost their jobs, homes and marriages after they were prosecuted by the Post Office – which knew the Fujitsu-developed IT system had “faults and bugs from the earliest days of its operation”.
Post Office worker dad-of-two, 59, took his own life after being wrongly accused of stealing £60,000
Updated: 24 Apr 2021, 12:12
A POST Office worker took his own life after being wrongly accused of stealing £60,000 and dipping into his own savings to make up deficit.
Dad-of-two Martin Griffiths, a postmaster for 20 years, killed himself in 2013 at the age of 59.
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Former post office workers celebrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, after having their convictions overturned by the Court of AppealCredit: PA
He worked at a branch in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, when he was accused of taking money.
A defective accounting system had wrongly showed a shortfall of £61,000.
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