UK Court Clears Names of 39 Wrongly Convicted Ex-subpostmasters

UK Court Clears Names of 39 Wrongly Convicted Ex-subpostmasters
Former subpostmasters celebrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, on April 23, 2021. Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images
Lily Zhou
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Thirty-nine former subpostmasters who were wrongfully convicted of theft, fraud, and false accounting have had their names cleared on Friday by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.

The convictions were quashed because the subpostmasters did not stand a fair trial and that the prosecutions have been “an affront to the conscience of the court.”

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