The revelations have sparked fury from subpostmasters, politicians and lawyers who said the poor handling of records could prevent wrongfully convicted people receiving justice.
The Post Office has lost the records of almost 20 cases involving the prosecution of subpostmasters in Scotland, the Sunday Mail can reveal.
It comes after the Scottish Government announced in June it would follow Westminster in bringing in a mass exoneration scheme for those wrongfully convicted. “Victims of this scandal have seen their lives ruined by the corrupt actions of the state yet a failure to identify cases will see victims again denied justice.”
In the UK it’s believed 900 subpostmasters were wrongfully convicted from 2000-2015 due to bugs with the system. Of those 104 resulted in a prosecution. It said it couldn’t “distinguish between cases investigated for theft and false accounting and other types of offences therefore some of these cases may have not related in to the Horizon system or accounting discrepancies”.
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