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 at the Post Office.
Between 2000 and 2014, more than 700 sub-postmasters were falsely prosecuted based on information from the Post Office’s computerised accounting and sales system, Horizon.
