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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.
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JANET SKINNER (centre) with her daughter and niece outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Friday, she was imprisoned in 2007 for nine months and separated from her two children
âHEADS must roll for the humiliation and misery inflicted on decent, upstanding people,â the CWU (Communication Workers Union) insisted yesterday.
It is demanding criminal investigations into senior Post Office figures who oversaw the criminalisation of hundreds of postmasters, including jailing many of them.
This demand comes after 39 postmasters had their convictions for theft, fraud or false accounting quashed by the Court of Appeal last week.
Judges overseeing the case ruled last Friday that corrupted data from the Post Officeâs Horizon system was at fault, not the workers.
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File photo dated 23/04/21 of former post office workers celebrating outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, after their convictions were overturned by the Court of Appeal. Neil Hudgell, who represented 29 of the cleared subpostmasters, has told BBC CONOR McGinn, the MP for St Helens North, has called for a public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal after 39 former subpostmasters had their names cleared in court this week. At a hearing last month, the court heard subpostmasters’ lives were “irreparably ruined” as they lost their jobs, homes and marriages after they were prosecuted by the Post Office – which knew the Fujitsu-developed IT system had “faults and bugs from the earliest days of its operation”.