Appeal court quashes 12 more convictions in Post Office IT scandal

Former post office operators were wrongly convicted of offences due to defective Horizon IT system

The court of appeal has cleared 12 more former post office operators who were wrongly convicted of offences because of the Post Office’s defective Horizon IT system.

In April, 39 former post office operators who were convicted and in some cases jailed for theft, fraud and false accounting had their names cleared – some after fighting for nearly 20 years.

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