‘Extensive exercise’ under way after theft, fraud and false accounting convictions quashed
The Post Office is contacting hundreds of people who may have been wrongfully prosecuted following theDozens of subpostmasters were prosecuted for theft, fraud and false accounting because of the Post Office’s defective Horizon accounting system, which had “bugs, defects and errors” from the outset.Last month, 39 former subpostmasters who were convicted and even jailed based on Horizon data had their convictions overturned by the court of appeal.
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