Six sub-postmasters caught up in the Horizon computer system scandal may have been victims of miscarriages of justice, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review commission has ruled. The six, one of whom has since died and is represented posthumously, are now entitled to appeal against the convictions for crimes of dishonesty arising from their roles as sub postmasters (SPM) at Post Office Ltd (POL).
Between 2000 and 2014, more than 700 sub-postmasters (SPMs) were falsely prosecuted based on information from the POL's computerised accounting and sales system, Horizon. Since then, many SPMs south of the border have had their criminal convictions for theft, fraud and false accounting overturned.
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) has now referred the cases of Aleid Kloosterhuis, Anne Quarm on behalf of William Quarm (deceased), Susan Sinclair, Colin Smith, Judith Smith and Robert Thomson to the High Court of Justiciary for determination.
