The Post Office has paved the way for 640 more postmasters who may have been wrongly prosecuted in the IT scandal to have their convictions quashed. Three Court of Appeal judges castigated the Government-owned Post Office last month for hounding its own staff before squandering public money trying to cover up the scandal. In a statement yesterday, the Post Office acknowledged its ‘failure to fairly investigate and disclose problems’ in the IT system to those who were prosecuted for offences such as theft, fraud and false accounting. Last month’s Court of Appeal judgment makes it unlikely that the Post Office will oppose claims, preventing the need for lengthy and expensive hearings. Campaigners have demanded that police investigate Post Office bosses and Paula Vennells, who presided over the scandal as chief executive from 2012 to 2019, has faced calls to be stripped of her CBE.

Source: Daily Mail May 07, 2021 23:53 UTC