vendredi 23 avril 2021

Largest ever miscarriage of justice?

So some years back the Post Office in the UK installed a new computer system and lo and behold the system revealed a large number of cases of what looked like theft and embezzlement. The accused insisted the computer system was at fault, the Post Office insisted it was perfect and many people were bankrupted, disgraced, convicted and in some cases imprisoned.

What comes next is all too predictable, evidence emerges that the Post Office knew the system was flawed, the post office was sued and forced to payout compensation to those who lost livelihoods. Today it was the turn of those convicted in court and in a single day 39 people had their convictions quashed:

Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared


via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/3sL02gF

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