>> Anybody know much about this?
No personal knowledge but it's a scandalous miscarriage of justice.
Basically the Horizon system was unreliable. The Post Office must have known but refused to acknowledge the fact. Instead people were prosecuted, often jailed and ruined. A number pleaded quilty to less serious offences as they were offered plea bargain type deals.
The Court's judgement on the first tranche of appeals is here:
www.judiciary.uk/judgments/hamilton-others-v-post-office-limited/
In the majority of cases they're evidently honest people caught in a trap. A handful of appellants had their convictions confirmed; they looked like chancing hangers on.
Prior to that there was incredibly bitterly fought Civil Litigation under the generic title Bates and Others v the Post Office. The PO stopped at nothing including trying to get the Judge discharged. He, the judge, was utterly scathing of aspects of the Post Office's evidence.
You could lose a day immersed in the detail.
BBC Radio 4 has a well regarded series of 15 minute programmes:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m000jf7j
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