subpostmasters

Post Office’s prosecution of subpostmasters is ‘affront to justice’, court hears

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The Post Office’s ‘appalling’ prosecution of subpostmasters is ‘the longest and most extensive affront to the justice system in living memory’, the Court of Appeal has heard. Dozens of former subpostmasters who were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting say the Post Office knew the Horizon accounting system had ‘faults and bugs from the … Read more

Dozens of subpostmasters begin legal bid to clear their names at Court of Appeal 

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Dozens of subpostmasters who say they were wrongly convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting in the Horizon IT scandal are battling to clear their names at the Court of Appeal. Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of postmasters were sacked or prosecuted after money appeared to go missing from their branch accounts. Post Office bosses were … Read more