Jan 5, 2024
Post Office scandal: TV drama prompts sub-postmasters to come forward
Fifty new potential victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal have contacted lawyers after ITV broadcast a drama about the case this week. Some 54 cases have resulted in a conviction being upheld, people being refused permission to appeal or the person appealing withdrawing from the process, according to the Post Office. "It's people that have been so heavily damaged by [the] Post Office psychologically, that they have been so fearful of coming forward and going through the process again." Mr Hudgell says the drama has brought light to the trauma of what the sub-postmasters went through: "It's brought huge widespread sympathy to these people so alongside that, family encouragement and speaking to other postmasters that have been along this journey they have found the courage to come forward." The Post Office has previously said it encourages "People who believe they were wrongly convicted, for any reason, to consider an appeal".
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