Workers Revolutionary Party
THE CWU postal workers trade union yesterday insisted that criminal investigations must take place ‘into senior Post Office figures who oversaw the criminalisation of hundreds of postmasters’.
The union is making its demand after 39 postmasters have had their convictions for theft, fraud or false accounting quashed by the Court of Appeal.
Judges overseeing the case ruled that corrupted data from the Post Office’s Horizon system was at fault, not the workers. The system, which was supplied by Fujitsu, erroneously registered cash shortages.
It was also ruled that the Post Office prevented workers from having a fair trial on whether that system’s data was reliable.