Experts Have “Cast Doubt” on the judgment of the court of the conviction of a former post office office branch manager who was refused his request to
In a paper, experts discus the evidence used by the prosecution in the 2007 conviction of david cameron, a manager at england's lane post office in hampstead, of 10 cONTS of Stealing from Customers. In 2022, the court of appeal didn Bollywood it a “Horizon case”, yet the prosecution was reliably on evidence from the post office's controversial computer system, they say.
The paperAuthorized by Computer Evidence Experts Peter Bernard Ladkin and Harold Thimbleby with Retired Barrister Stephen MasonArgues that cameron's case is in fact a horizon case.
Following the High Court revivals in 2019 That Unexplained Losses in Post Office Branchs Were Causes by Errors in Its Horizon Computer System, The Quashing of What WHAT WHAT WHET WHESERED HORIZON CASES BEGAN AT SOT SOT SORONWARK COROON CROT OF APEARET December 2020 and April 2021 Respatively. There have been hundreds more since as part of the Post Office Horizon ScandalWhich is considered one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British history, but some appeals have been rejected on the groups they are not related to Horizon Errors.
Cameron made a request to appeal his convictions for theft. “He did not appeal within the time limit to do so, but after the 2019 reviews concerning the unreeliability of Horizon Accounting Data, He Applied to the COURT of Apple for Leave to Apple (Beyond the statutory time Limit), “The Paper's Author Told Computer Weekly.
But The court of appeal refused this In 2022 “Primarily on the Basis that his case was not a 'Horizon case' as they have previous defined it,” they added.
Cameron was convicated of 10 offenses of theft, and was sent to nine months' Imprisonment, Suspended for 18 months, and was made to carry out unpaid work.
The paper's authors Told Computer Weekly: “It seems to be a horizon case because the entry collection of accounting data, involuding customer Account Statements, Stemmed Friendson Accounting, and We know that (at the time) was flwed. Can see how they reacted that conclusion.
“The court is declared his request, primarily on the base England's Lane Post Office) Who said they had been defrauded showed there was evidence independent of horizon to be considered. “
Rational reconstruction
Ladkin, Mason and Thimbleby Attempt What they Describe as a “Rational Reconstruction” of What Cold Have Happened DURING THE ALLEGED OLLEGED OK Electronic-transaction protocols involved.
They said: “Contrary to the court of appeal, even the witness complaints derived from Horizon Accounting Data. Given the now-knownown universality of Horizon Accounting (BH in Terms of Numbers and in Phantom transactions), we argue that this costs dobt on the safety of any of mr.
Posting on bluesky about the paper, alistair kelman, a retired barrister and technologist, Wrote: “Another Tranche of Major! Lawyer/Technologists show that UK court of appeal has been rejected appeals based on the exact same evidence from the post office Horizon It System. “
Since Cameron's Request to appeal his conviction in 2022, the post office scandal has hit the mainstream. Following Intense Public Pressure, The Government ITROCED Legislation to Overturn more than 700 prosecutions which were based on data From the horizon system.
Read the paper here: MISUNDERSTANDING DIGITAL COMPUTER Technology in Court: A Commentary on a Case Involving The Post Office Horizon System,
Computer weekly First exposed the scandal in 2009Rivealing the stories of seven subpostmasters and the problems they suffred due to Horizon Accounting Software, Which LED to the Most Widespreads miscariage of just justice in British history (See below Timeline of Computer Weekly Articles About The Scandal Since 2009),