By Press Association 2021
Coronavirus â Mon Apr 12, 2021
Dozens of former subpostmasters who were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting due to the Post Office’s defective Horizon accounting system finally had their names cleared by the Court of Appeal on Friday.
Here the PA news agency looks at the decades-long scandal and what happens next.
– Who are the subpostmasters?
Subpostmasters run Post Office branches, which are often situated inside a shop or other business, which the subpostmasters also run.
Hundreds of subpostmasters were prosecuted by the Post Office. A total of 42 cases were considered by the Court of Appeal, with 39 of them having their convictions overturned.
By Press Association 2021
Coronavirus â Mon Apr 12, 2021
Dozens of former subpostmasters who were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting due to the Post Office’s defective Horizon accounting system finally had their names cleared by the Court of Appeal on Friday.
Here the PA news agency looks at the decades-long scandal and what happens next.
– Who are the subpostmasters?
Subpostmasters run Post Office branches, which are often situated inside a shop or other business, which the subpostmasters also run.
Hundreds of subpostmasters were prosecuted by the Post Office. A total of 42 cases were considered by the Court of Appeal, with 39 of them having their convictions overturned.
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Emma Jones, the daughter of now deceased postmaster Julian Wilson, outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, after her father’s conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal, Friday, April 23.
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Karen Wilson, widow of postmaster Julian Wilson who died in 2016, holds a photograph of her husband outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, after his conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal, Friday, April 23.
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LONDON In a ruling that reversed one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British legal history, 39 people who ran local post offices had their convictions for theft, fraud and false accounting overturned Friday because of what an appeals court said was clear evidence of “bugs, errors or defects” in an IT system.
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