the problems with horizon and the adverse impact these had had on prosecutions across the uk. in september 2020, supported by crown office, and with information provided by the post office, the scottish criminal cases review commission wrote to 73 individuals who may have been convicted in scotland on the basis of unreliable evidence from the horizon system, with the purpose of inviting the application for their case to be reviewed. to date, to the best of my knowledge, and individuals have come forward to the scottish criminal cases review commission, and of that 16, the commission has made seven such referrals to the high court, four of which have resulted already in convictions being overturned. in addition to those individuals who had been written to by the commission, in recognising the role it can play in the system s commissions were, the crown office, separate from the list identified by the post office, identified a potentially affected cases with a view to identifyi
evidence at court, that many of the statements denied that they were ever traffic for ready trial. none of them had ever been trafficked. during the investigation mr ramzan was arrested. he had never really met the defendant, had nothing to do with trafficking, had never been alone in a room with errors let alone in a room with errors let alone had sex with her. he described in court is utter consternation at being publicly arrested on the promenades and questioned by the police. i will set out more of the impact of this offending upon him and his family later in his remarks. the defendant set about seeking to back up allegations against mr ramzan and the fictitious traffickers. she did so in a number of ways. i will summarise here only some of them. she manipulated people with whom she was in contact via snapchat to contact her. she would rename these people in her phone with the names of supposed traffickers. she would induce sexual messages from them and take screenshots o
with turkey, returns agreement with places like albania and crossings on the channel down by a third. we have action taking hundreds of people arrested who have been part of a legal all involved in trafficking here in the uk as well. this is the next step on that, this will be the top is legislation that has ever been brought forward by a british government to tackle illegal immigration and that is what we are really focusing on today top as legislation. we heard from keir starmer early on, he doesn t back the plan. his only plan is to borrow £28 million a year more. which would go into higher taxes for everyone in the country. he wants open borders, he opposes our rwanda bill today because he is not interested in controlling illegal immigration and what we are really trying to assert colleagues at the moment is that this is a very important next step in exactly what we are trying to do, which is tackle illegal migration across the channel. which is tackle illegal migrat