CCRC Chairman, Helen Pitcher, commented on the Court of Appeal decision: ‘This has been a serious miscarriage of justice which has had a devastating impact on these victims and their families. Every single one of these convictions has clearly had a profound and life-changing impact for those involved. Six convictions had already been quashed which had been referred to Southwark Crown Court.
The Post Office has rightly acknowledged the failures that led to these cases and conceded that the prosecutions were an abuse of process. We sincerely hope that lessons will be learned from this to prevent anything similar happening elsewhere in the future.’
The CCRC encourages anyone who believes that their criminal conviction could be unsafe due to the impact of their case of performance issues with the Horizon computer system to consider challenging their conviction.
For more information, see the full judgment: Hamilton and others v Post Office Ltd [2021] EWCA Crim 577.
Source: 39 Convictions Quashed in Post Office Cases
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