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Noel Thomas spent his 60th birthday behind bars. Tracy Felstead was jailed and plunged into a depression, twice trying to kill herself.
Martin Griffiths, hounded by Post Office auditors, actually did – leaving a note of apology to his family before stepping in front of a bus.
All these and hundreds more blameless former postmasters and postmistresses were pillars of their village communities until being preposterously branded crooks and having their lives torn apart.
Former post office worker Janet Skinner (centre), with her niece Hayley Adams (right) and her daughter Toni Sisson, celebrating outside the Royal Courts of Justice
Former Post Office sub-postmaster Jo Hamilton reacts to the verdict outside The High Court. The Appeal Court has cleared the names of a group of 42 sub-postmasters
Updated: 23 Apr 2021, 21:26
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FORMER subpostmasters who were accused of theft, fraud and false accounting over a faulty IT system wept as their convictions were overturned today.
Thirty nine ex-Post Office workers had their names cleared by the Court of Appeal after their lives were ruined when they were prosecuted for stealing money in one of Britain s biggest miscarriages of justice.
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Former post office worker Janet Skinner (left) outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, after having her conviction overturned by the Court of Appeal.Credit: PA
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Former post office worker Noel Thomas, who was convicted of false accounting in 2006, celebrates with his daughter Sian outside the Royal Courts of Justice in LondonCredit: PA
By Press Association 2021
Post Office court case
The Post Office must “do the right thing” and provide compensation to former subpostmasters wrongly convicted of offences, their solicitor has said.
Hundreds of subpostmasters were prosecuted for theft, fraud and false accounting because of the Post Office’s defective Horizon accounting system, which had “bugs, defects and errors” from the very outset.
But on Friday, 39 former subpostmasters who were convicted and even jailed based on Horizon data had their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal.
Neil Hudgell, who represented 29 of those who were cleared, said the scandal was “probably the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK legal history” in terms of the number of people affected and its duration.
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