A ‘powerful and poignant’ documentary on the Post Office Horizon scandal is to be broadcast telling the full ‘shocking’ impact on the lives of former sub-postmasters wrongfully convicted of crimes they didn’t commit.
‘Two Decades: A Fight for Justice’ was commissioned by Hudgell Solicitors and produced around a historic day at the Court of Appeal in […]
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Like millions of others, Noel Thomas will sit with his family to watch the new ITV drama ‘Mr Bates v The Post Office’ on New Year’s Day, which tells the story of the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK legal history.
Mr Thomas, of Gaerwen, Anglesey, knows the plot all too well, as it’s the story […]
Hudgell Solicitors and Doughty Street Chambers are this week representing a further 30 former sub-postmasters who are seeking to have convictions of theft, fraud and false accounting quashed.
The Post Office Horizon scandal saw hundreds of sub-postmasters wrongly convicted of crimes when accounts showed unexplained shortfalls and discrepancies.
Many were forced to ‘repay’ thousands of pounds and […]
At the age of 65, having recently sold his house for some much-needed funds, former sub-postmaster Stefan Fountain is currently on the lookout for a part-time job.
Twenty-two years after taking over a Post Office in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire – a job he thought would be ‘for life’ – he is thinking about how he starts […]
“I’ve got to see this through for Julian and clear his name because he is no longer here to fight for justice himself.”
Four years after losing her husband to bowel cancer, and 12 years after he was convicted of false accounting by the Post Office, 65-year-old Karen Wilson is hopeful that she is on the […]
Two new Post Office Horizon legal cases could set a precedent to enable the convictions of more former subpostmasters to be quashed by the courts after their deaths.
Representations from the relatives of Roderick Dundee and Peter Huxham have led to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) referring their cases to Southwark Crown Court to be […]
Former sub-postmaster Keith Bell says that without the recent television drama which exposed the full horror of the Post Office Horizon Scandal to the nation, he wouldn’t have challenged his long-standing criminal record, or even sought compensation.
In his own words, he had ‘buried those awful memories to the back of the mind’ and focussed on […]
Like hundreds of others, Tony Downey’s dream of running a rural Post Office turned into a nightmare.
Continuing shortfalls in his branch accounts – caused by the faulty Horizon accounting system – led to him losing his livelihood, declaring himself bankrupt and suffering from crippling anxiety and depression.
Such was the impact on life, he and his […]
A former sub-postmistress convicted of stealing £50,000 from the community Post Office she ran says she is ‘devastated’ at being told her case is not being sent to the Court of Appeal to consider.
Teju Adedayo says she has ‘lived with the unbearable shame’ of her conviction for the past 14 years, but insists she was […]
Clients of Hudgell Solicitors gave their reactions as their longstanding convictions for theft and false accounting, related to the faulty Horizon Post Office accounting system, was today quashed at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
Alison Hall of Liversedge – conviction for false accounting – QUASHED
This is a great day for all of us. Myself, […]
He spent three months in jail – for a crime he insists he didn’t commit – and has kept his criminal conviction a secret from the majority of his family – including his mother – for the past 18 years, such his feeling of ‘shame and embarrassment’.
Even now, he insists he doesn’t want his full […]
A former sub-postmistress whose story is told in the new ITV drama about the Post Office Horizon scandal says she hopes the series and subsequent documentary will encourage others to ‘find the courage’ to come forward and clear their names.
Jo Hamilton, 66, was one of more than 700 sub-postmasters prosecuted between 2000 and 2014, based […]