The court of appeal has cleared 12 more former post office operators who were wrongly convicted of offences because of the Post Office’s defective H

Appeal court quashes 12 more convictions in Post Office IT scandal

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2021-07-19 16:00:06

The court of appeal has cleared 12 more former post office operators who were wrongly convicted of offences because of the Post Office’s defective Horizon IT system.

In April, 39 former post office operators who were convicted and in some cases jailed for theft, fraud and false accounting had their names cleared – some after fighting for nearly 20 years.

On Monday, three senior judges overturned the convictions of a further 12 people who were convicted based on evidence from the faulty accounting system used by the Post Office from 2000.

Lord Justice Holroyde and two other judges quashed the convictions of Robert Ambrose, Hasmukh Shingadia, John Armstrong, Timothy Brentnall, Jerry Hosi, Gurdeep Singh Dhale, John Dickson, Abiodun Omotoso, Malcolm Watkins, Sami Sabet, Carina Price and Rizwan Manjra.

Their appeals were unopposed by the Post Office and the judge said the court would give full reasons in writing at a later date, but that they should be cleared as soon as possible in the circumstances.