A call has been made for hundreds of Post Office staff wrongly accused of theft and false accounting to all have their convictions overturned.
More than 700 Post Office managers were convicted when faulty accounting software made it look as though money was missing from their sites.
A board overseeing compensation said until all convictions were quashed, “we cannot put the scandal behind us”.
A board overseeing compensation said until all convictions were quashed, “we cannot put the scandal behind us”.
The Horizon scandal – named after the faulty accounting software – constitutes Britain’s most widespread miscarriage of justice.
The convictions of hundreds of postmasters and postmistresses for false accounting and theft between 2000 and 2014 resulted in some people going to prison.
Many were financially ruined after being prosecuted and some of those wrongly accused have since died.
Wendy Cousins was convicted of theft in 2009. She had pleaded guilty, but her son Paul told the BBC’s Today programme that she had only done so in order to avoid a prison sentence, as she thought she would not survive going to jail.
She took her case to the Court of Appeal in 2021 but the judges refused to overturn her conviction, saying it was not based on Horizon evidence. She died last year.
A call has been made for hundreds of Post Office staff wrongly accused of theft and false accounting to all have their convictions overturned.
A board overseeing compensation said until all convictions were quashed, “we cannot put the scandal behind us”.
More than 700 Post Office managers were convicted when faulty accounting software made it look as though money was missing from their sites.
The Horizon scandal – named after the faulty accounting software – constitutes Britain’s most widespread miscarriage of justice.
A board overseeing compensation said until all convictions were quashed, “we cannot put the scandal behind us”.
A board overseeing compensation said until all convictions were quashed, “we cannot put the scandal behind us”.
The Horizon scandal – named after the faulty accounting software – constitutes Britain’s most widespread miscarriage of justice.
The convictions of hundreds of postmasters and postmistresses for false accounting and theft between 2000 and 2014 resulted in some people going to prison.
Many were financially ruined after being prosecuted and some of those wrongly accused have since died.
Wendy Cousins was convicted of theft in 2009. She had pleaded guilty, but her son Paul told the BBC’s Today programme that she had only done so in order to avoid a prison sentence, as she thought she would not survive going to jail.
She took her case to the Court of Appeal in 2021 but the judges refused to overturn her conviction, saying it was not based on Horizon evidence. She died last year.
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