Firm that investigated controversial Post Office IT system to support criminal conviction appeals
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The forensic accounting company that examined the Post Office’s controversial IT system is working with subpostmasters to try to overturn their wrongful convictions for financial crimes. The Post office subsequently produced another report to refute the expert findings of Second Sight and ended its contract with it. In December 2019, a High Court judge ruled that the subpostmasters were right that unexplained accounting shorfalls could be caused by Horizon errors and that the Post Office’s denials were wrong. A few months later, the CCRC referred its first batch of 39 subpostmasters’ cases of potential wrongful conviction to the Court of Appeal. “We are confident that their support will help us take huge strides forward in gathering the evidence we need to best represent our clients.” There could be hundreds more wrongful prosecutions of subpostmasters as a result of Horizon errors.
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