Postmasters branded crooks saw their convictions quashed yesterday after one of Britain’s biggest miscarriages of justice.
In a victory for the Daily Mail, six ex-Post Office staff became the first victims of the Horizon IT scandal to have their sentences formally overturned.
They said the decision finally lets them ‘hold their heads high’.
Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of postmasters were prosecuted for false accounting, fraud and theft after money appeared to go missing from their branch accounts.
Six ex-Post Office staff became the first victims of the Horizon IT scandal to have their sentences formally overturned at London’s Southwark Crown Court on Friday