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Updated: 23 Apr 2021, 21:26 Invalid Date, FORMER subpostmasters who were accused of theft, fraud and false accounting over a faulty IT system wept as their convictions were overturned today. Thirty nine ex-Post Office workers had their names cleared by the Court of Appeal after their lives were "ruined" when they were prosecuted for stealing money in one of Britain's biggest miscarriages of justice. 6 Former post office worker Janet Skinner (left) outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, after having her conviction overturned by the Court of Appeal.Credit: PA 6 Former post office worker...

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. 7 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 o...

Former post office operator Janet Skinner, centre, with her niece Hayley Adams, right, and her daughter Toni Sisson celebrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Guardian: Dozens of former post office operators have had their convictions for theft, fraud and false accounting quashed by the court of appeal after judges ruled the convictions were due to “corrupt data” from an IT system. In the latest chapter of one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in English legal history, 39 people who were prosecuted after the Horizon IT system installed by the Post Office ...

Former post office workers celebrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, after having their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal. Images: PA WRONGFULLY convicted subpostmasters have called for a full inquiry into the Horizon scandal which saw dozens of workers prosecuted for crimes they did not commit.  The Court of Appeal cleared 39 former subpostmasters today, after they were convicted and some even jailed for theft, fraud and false accounting. However three of the convicted workers - Wendy Cousins, Stanley Fell and Neelam Hussain – had their appeals dismissed ...

By Press Association 2021 Coronavirus – 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 subpo...