Julian Wilson, who owned and ran the Astwood Bank village post office branch in Worcestershire, was convicted following a Post Office prosecution … Being wrongly sent to prison while pregnant in Post Office scandal affected my whole life. Comment. In our work supporting people in fighting for justice we have seen few cases as damaging to lives as the Post Office Horizon accounting computer scandal. Post Office Horizon IT Scandal - Justice for Subpostmasters. They knew that there were faults in the software but chose to ignore them and instead bring malicious prosecutions. Post Office scandal: Postmasters await Appeal Court ruling. Scandal is the right word, yet another example of big business thinking they can do what the hell they like. Post Office managers falsely convicted of offences such as theft, fraud and false accounting have had their convictions overturned after spending years attempting to clear their names. My losses alone came to £200,000. A group of 39 former postmasters had their convictions quashed at the UK Court of Appeal on Friday after what has been described as the country's largest collective miscarriage of justice. Hudgell Solicitors and Doughty Street Chambers have so far represented 32 former subpostmasters to have convictions of theft, fraud and false accounting quashed. The Post Office must “do the right thing” and provide compensation to former subpostmasters wrongly convicted of offences, their solicitor has said. I hope these 39 get a decent compensation payout. The Post Office must “do the right thing” and provide compensation to former subpostmasters wrongly convicted of offences, their solicitor … Post Office Horizon scandal – CWU demands ‘Inquiry, compensation and accountability’ Monday 8th June 2020. … The Post Office settled, giving the claimants £58million in compensation. The Post Office does not have enough money to pay compensation to the subpostmasters it ... taxpayers’ money to compensate subpostmasters who were ruined by the Post Office Horizon scandal. This compensation will not cover the fraudulent claims that the Post Office took from me. Picture: PA Journalist Nick Wallis, who has investigated the Post Office scandal for years told LBC people were being "prosecuted on an industrial scale". A Hull law firm has launched 50 new appeals relating to the Post Office Horizon scandal following a landmark day at the Court of Appeal last week. A saga that has ruined hundreds of lives and sullied the image of UK's Post Office brand, its roots go back more than 20 years to the introduction of a new computer system called Horizon. Hundreds of former sub-postmasters were prosecuted and many sent to prison in what has been described as one of the UK’s most scandalous miscarriages of justice. 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