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Thirty nine subpostmasters cleared by Court of Appeal as convictions overturned
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter Thirty nine former subpostmasters convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting because of a defective Post Office accounting system have had their names cleared as their convictions were overturned by the Court of Appeal.
Subpostmasters’ lives were “irreparably ruined”, as they lost their jobs, homes and marriages after they were prosecuted by the Post Office – which knew the Fujitsu-developed IT system had “faults and bugs from the earliest days of its operation”, the Court of Appeal heard last month.
Lawyers representing 42 former subpostmasters said evidence of serious defects in the Horizon system was “concealed from the courts, prosecutors and
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