Justice on the horizon for brave postmasters
The Daily Mail editorial
"It can be cliched to describe a frightening, disorientating situation as Kafkaesque," says the Daily Mail's editorial. But "no word more perfectly sums up the horrendous ordeal" suffered by the sub-postmasters wrongly convicted of swindling money on the basis of evidence from the faulty Horizon IT system. A mass absolution is the "right" decision, but "until those responsible for this appalling scandal are finally held accountable, the victims will always be denied true justice".
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John Rapley on UnHerd
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