
The Post Office scandal: Lessons from one of the UK's greatest miscarriages of justice
From The Politics Show
Published 1/11/2024

From The Politics Show
Published 1/11/2024
Between 2009 and 2015 more than 700 people who ran Post Offices, also known as sub-postmasters, were wrongly accused of embezzling money and subsequently prosecuted. The fault was actually that of a dodgy computer accounting system.In addition to having to pay back the money from their own pockets,…