Sub-postmistress Deirdre Connolly from Co Tyrone, one of many Post Office employees wrongly accused of fraud due to mistakes made by the company’s own Horizon system. Picture: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press
Dozens of former sub-postmasters in Northern Ireland could be owed compensation by the Post Office after Britain’s “biggest miscarriage of justice”, a Derry-based lawyer has said. Michael Madden, of Madden & Finucane, said that the so-called Horizon scandal in Britain had led to more than 700 sub-postmasters being convicted of fraud, which later turned out to be the result of faulty accounting software.Subscribe from just €1 for the first month!
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