The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) is Attempting to Contact Any Former SubPostmasters that would have been prosecuted for Unexplaned Losses on the post offight Office'ST OFECT OFECH Capture software.
There are forr subpostmasters that, like Horizon users, even could have been convicated of crimes based on data from these systems.
Since the Post Office Horizon Scandal Hit the Mainstream in January 2024 – Revealing to a wide audience the Suforing experience by subpostmasters who were blamed for errors in the horizon accounting system – users of post of posts of posts of / Predated Horizon has come forwardSupported by Campaigning Peer Kevan Jones, to Tell their stories, which echoed theose of victims of the horizon scandal.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission for England and Wales is now reviewing 21 cases of Potential Wrongful Conviction, Put Forward by Law Firm Hudgell Solicitors, Where the Capture the Capture It System Coulded Be a Factor.
Capture was a pc-based application developed by the post office And uploaded onto a personal computer to carry out branch accounts.
The software was a standalone system, unlike Horizon, which is a complex, networked system connected to centigrade services (see beLow for Timeline of Capture Developments Since Zanuary 2024).
The sccrc is now called on people that might have been convicated based on Capture Accounts to come forward. “The Commission Encourage Anyone Who Believes that their Criminal Conviction, or that of a relative, might have been affected by the capture system to make contact with it,” IT SAID
Third system
The statutory body is also investigating a third post office system, Known as ecco+Whoch was also error-prone. It was thought this system was only used in brranchs (directly managed by the post office) and brown branches that was taken over by subspecers. But computer weekly has discovered that ecco +wal actually be bought by subpostmasters for use in their branches.
“We are currently investigables Possible Miscarriages of Justice Relating to Problems with Various Computer Systems Used In Post Office Branchs in the 1990s (Capture, CAPTURE, ECCO+),”
Read the sccrc's Related Information Sheet,
In May 2024, Scottish Parliament Announced Its Own Legislation to exonerate subpostmasters With convictions based on evidence from the Horizon System.
This following a Similar law introduced for england and wales In March Last Year That Saw Over 700 Former SubPostmasters Exonerated.
A total of 64 former subpostmasters in scotland have no hade their convictions overturned through the legislation brieft through screen parliament.
So far, 97 convicated subpostmasters have come forward, and 86 have been assessed, out of which the 64 have ben overturned. However, 22 have been rejected and another 11 are still to be assessed.
An Independent Group, Fronted by a Former Scottish SubPostmaster, Is also also called on users of any of the post office systems to come forward to tell their stories, and for support ineking justify and reads.
The Scottish postmasters for justice and redressAs the group is knowledge, will officially launch tomorrow at scottish parliament. It was set up by rab thomson, a former subpostmaster of a branch Near Alloa, who had a wrangful theft conviction overturned last year.
The group has the support of former scottish nationalist party mp marion fellows, who was Chair of the all-part office office parloementary group, and calum Great, and Calum Greenhow, The CEO of the Nature Federation of Subpostmasters.