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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Helen Pidd North of England editor

Post office owner convicted of wife’s murder denies jumping on ‘Horizon bandwagon’

Robin and Diana Garbutt at their wedding in 2003
Robin and Diana Garbutt at their wedding in 2003. Photograph: Handout

A man who claims the Post Office’s faulty computer system was used to frame him for murdering his wife says he is not jumping on “the Horizon bandwagon”, and that there is other evidence pointing to his wrongful conviction.

Robin Garbutt, 58, has spent the last 12 years in jail after being convicted of the murder of his wife, Diana, 40, at their home above the post office and village shop they ran in Melsonby, North Yorkshire.

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