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By John Hyde2021-04-23T11:40:00+01:00
A senior lawyer for the Post Office talked of dissuading accused postmasters from jumping on the bandwagon’ of attacking the Horizon computer system, it has emerged.
In a 92-page judgment in Hamilton & Others v Post Office Limited, the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 39 former postmasters after they were wrongly found to have stolen money from the Post Office. Some of those convicted went to prison, lost their homes and were shunned by their communities. Three of those wrongly convicted have not lived to see the outcome of their appeals.
The convictions were based on the faulty Horizon computer system installed in Post Office branches, and the judgment sets out efforts made before and after the prosecutions to discredit any attempt to criticise the technology.