'The canker sore of this injustice can never truly heal: the damage is done' // PeatWorrier
IF your employer produced digital evidence which showed that you have been embezzling substantial sums of money from them, how would you prove you didn’t do it? In principle, the burden of proof lies on the prosecutor. In principle, you don’t have to prove your innocence.
Until 2014, the Post Office maintained that “there is absolutely no evidence of any systemic issues with the computer system which is used by over 78,000 people across our 11,500 branches and which successfully processes over six million transactions every day.” Their lives and fortunes had been wrecked. Because of the Post Office’s false allegations of financial impropriety, many had built up substantial personal debt to cover shortfalls. Others spoke of losing pensions they had worked for for decades. Every one lost their reputations in the communities they once served. But curiously, not a single postmaster who gave evidence had been pursued through the courts by the Scottish authorities.
Last week, matters became a little clearer. On Tuesday, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission referred six cases back to the Appeal Court. They have concluded that the convictions of Aleid Kloosterhuis, William Quarm, Susan Sinclair, Colin Smith, Judith Smith and Rab Thomson may have constituted miscarriages of justice.
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