Cliff Notes
- A significant report from 1998 on the faulty Capture software has resurfaced, possibly overturning wrongful convictions related to the Post Office scandal.
- The report described the software as “totally discredited” and indicated that it could produce serious accounting errors, questioning the validity of prosecutions against sub postmasters.
- This document is now with the Criminal Cases Review Commission, examining multiple cases of potential miscarriages of justice linked to the software.
Crucial evidence in Post Office scandal found in garage of retired computer expert after 30 years | UK News
A damning report into the faulty Post Office IT system that proceeded Horizon has been unearthed after nearly 30 years – and it could help overturn criminal convictions.
The document, known about by the Post Office in 1998, is described as “hugely significant” and a “fundamental piece of evidence” and was found in a garage by a retired computer expert.
Capture was a piece of accounting software, likely to have caused errors, used in more than 2,000 branches between 1992 and 1999.
It came before the infamous faulty Horizon software scandal, which saw hundreds of sub postmasters wrongfully convicted between 1999 and 2015.
