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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Post Office Horizon scandal not the fault of judges, Lady Chief Justice insists

Judges who jailed Post Office branch managers should not be blamed for the Horizon IT scandal, the Lady Chief Justice has insisted.

Around 4,000 subpostmasters were accused of financial wrongdoing between 1999 and 2015, leading to 700 criminal convictions and 236 people being sent to prison.

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