US EditionPublished • loading... • Updated
Conviction linked to third 'faulty' Post Office system referred to Court of Appeal
The Criminal Cases Review Commission found evidence that APS/APT systems may cause accounting errors, potentially invalidating Gareth Snow's conviction amid the Post Office IT scandal.
- The Criminal Cases Review Commission referred Gareth Snow's conviction to the Court of Appeal, citing evidence from a third possible faulty Post Office system after last month's Capture referrals.
- Prosecutors alleged Gareth Snow falsified documents to cover a loss of 57,534.75, and he applied to the CCRC after abandoning an earlier appeal.
- After an audit at his branch in Corwen, Gareth Snow was interviewed by Post Office investigators and charged with three counts of false accounting, admitting falsification due to APS/APT errors causing shortfalls in his manual account ledger.
- The Court of Appeal will now decide whether the conviction is unsafe and should be quashed, while CCRC chair Dame Vera Baird KC said there appeared to be no indication the Post Office Ltd investigated other causes.
- Fujitsu's Horizon software has been tied to around 1,000 wrongful convictions, and the CCRC has received more than 30 applications about pre-Horizon systems including Capture; this referral follows a Capture-based case last month.
Insights by Ground AI
3 Articles
3 Articles
Conviction of North Wales postmaster based on third 'faulty' Post Office system referred for appeal
Gareth Snow had pleaded guilty to false accounting in July 2001 to cover losses of more than £57,000 at his branch in Denbighshire, resulting in him being jailed for six months
·Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom
Read Full Article
Conviction linked to third 'faulty' Post Office system referred to Court of Appeal
Gareth Snow was sentenced to six months' imprisonment after pleading guilty to false accounting linked to the organisation's Automatic Payment Service (APS) and Automatic Payment Terminal (APT).
·United Kingdom
Read Full ArticleCoverage Details
Total News Sources3
Leaning Left0Leaning Right1Center2Last UpdatedBias Distribution67% Center
Bias Distribution
- 67% of the sources are Center
67% Center
C 67%
R 33%
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
