Stefan Mileschin

Asking victims to come forward

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) is asking more victims of the evil English computer which caused the arrest of hundreds of subpostmasters.

For those who came in late, hundreds of English sub-postmasters were bankrupted, arrested or fired after a bug-ridden Fujitsu-supplied Horizon system started what could only be described as a witch hunt.

Based on its own spectral evidence, and backed by Post Office managers who did not believe their expensive computer could ever be wrong shedloads of innocent people were dragged to court. It took years to acquit them and many died before their names could be cleared.

Now the SCCRC wants to hear from a “second tranche” of former subpostmasters to come forward following successful work to locate potential victims of miscarriages of justice as the statutory public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal heads to Scotland. Glasgow will host the next set of hearings, which will see Scotland-based victims of the scandal tell their stories to inquiry chair Wyn Williams. These human impact hearings will take place on 11 and 12 May 2022.

In September 2020, the SCCRC took what it described as an “unusual step” and wrote to more than 70 people with potential wrongful convictions. This followed the CCRC in England referring cases for appeal, leading to 73 former subpostmasters having their criminal convictions overturned so far.

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