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UK: 39 sub-postmasters who were wrongly prosecuted by the Post Office have icriminal convictions overturned.
Some were imprisoned for crimes they never committed. They had been accused of theft and false accounting because of a faulty computer system. https://news.sky.com/story/dozens-of-postmasters-accused-of-theft-by-post-office-due-to-faulty-it-system-have-convictions-overturned-12284311
Some were imprisoned for crimes they never committed. They had been accused of theft and false accounting because of a faulty computer system. https://news.sky.com/story/dozens-of-postmasters-accused-of-theft-by-post-office-due-to-faulty-it-system-have-convictions-overturned-12284311
"Between 2000 and 2014, the Post Office prosecuted more than 700 sub-postmasters, on average one a week, after a bug in the computer system Horizon led to financial shortfalls in branch accounts."
#Dystopia #ProveTheComputerWrongOrGoToJail
#Dystopia #ProveTheComputerWrongOrGoToJail
Who wants our civil compensation system to be more like England?
"It previously agreed a nearly £58m settlement with 550 sub-postmasters, but *most of that money went on legal costs and funders*."
"It previously agreed a nearly £58m settlement with 550 sub-postmasters, but *most of that money went on legal costs and funders*."
http://BBC.com story
"Some went to prison following convictions for false accounting and theft, many were financially ruined and have described being shunned by their communities. Some have since died."
Twenty years it took to get to this point.
Twenty years it took to get to this point.
Due to the sheer number of people wrongly convicted the BBC calls it 'the most widespread, known, miscarriage of justice in British history'.
Anyone for the last few e-voting machines?
Fallout continues https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56882496
The Post Office almost got away with it.
See @davidallengreen for details.
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2019/3408.html
See @davidallengreen for details.
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2019/3408.html
Blog by @RichardMoorhead lays it out
https://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2021/04/23/the-post-office-where-were-the-lawyers-post/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
https://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2021/04/23/the-post-office-where-were-the-lawyers-post/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
“Horizon was used like the Post Office was Salem. It was the Crucible. The Post Office just looked to see if it said you were a witch. Lawyers designed and managed, it seems, the legal approach to the Crucible.”
Tremendous account of a stunning series of miscarriages of justice.
Tremendous account of a stunning series of miscarriages of justice.
*Civil* litigators and a careful judge Fraser J. https://twitter.com/ed_levey/status/1386052985567031300
Solicitors were @freeths https://twitter.com/freeths/status/1385600837339209728
