Kathleen Crane was handed a 12-month community order and ordered to repay more than £18,000 she was accused of taking from her branch in Eastbourne, East Sussex, when she was sentenced in 2010.
She was one of hundreds of branch owner-operators convicted after the Post Office’s defective Horizon accounting system – provided by the IT company Fujitsu – produced figures that suggested money was missing.
Delivering the judgment, Lord Justice Holroyde said: “We have no doubt that her prosecution was an abuse of process. Nor do we have any doubt that her conviction is unsafe.”
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Compensation needs to be paid and motherfuckers need to go to prison for their part in prosecuting people that they knew damn well were innocent.
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She was one of hundreds of branch owner-operators convicted after the Post Office’s defective Horizon accounting system – provided by the IT company Fujitsu – produced figures that suggested money was missing.
At a hearing in London on Thursday, three appeal court judges ruled there was “no doubt” Crane’s conviction was unsafe, adding that she was “kept in ignorance” of Horizon’s defects.
Speaking to ITV outside the Royal Courts of Justice after the decision, Crane said her “horrible” experience was “over now” and urged others affected by the scandal to come forward.
Flora Page, representing Crane in court, said her client had “suffered in silence” since her “appalling experience”, adding that a “fraud she had not committed brought its own humiliation”.
She later pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation after legal advice made her feel that the Horizon system was infallible.
Teale was involved in the prosecution of William Quarm, who pleaded guilty to embezzling money in 2010 to try to avoid going to prison over the case.
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