Department for Work and Pensions Starting an independent review in the handling of the prosecution against the post office staff.
There were about 100 prosecution by DWP between 2001 and 2006 Horizon this scam.
The decision to review the work on matters comes after it comes out Post office Investigation team shared information WPP,
The investigation from 1996 to 2018 will look into the period of time covered by the Post Office (Horizon System) Crime Act 2024.
It was Legislation At that time, the post office employees convicted effectively emitted a blanket, but it did not include the culprits belonging to the DWP.
It was revealed that DWP and Post Office conducted a joint investigation during a joint investigation Khota By sky News Last May.
Responding to the findings of the time, the lawyer and the then chairman of the Justice Select Committee, Sir Robert Neil KC said that DWP’s sentences require “seen”.
“I think if we are seeing that if we are saying that their approach was fired from the beginning – the way investigators adopted things – then joint operations I suspect that certainly something will happen where it is a post office on its own.”
A DWP spokesperson said: “We have committed to review an independent assurance, where the post office members were prosecuted by the department for welfare fraud.
“These cases included complex investigations and were supported by evidence, including filmed surveillance, the benefit books and witnesses of the theft – to date, no documents have been identified, showing that the horizon data was required for in prosecution.”
Advocate Neil Hadgel, who represented several victims of the post office scandal, stated that the review was “completely insufficient”, saying that DWP “should not do his homework.”
He said, “Any partnership in the process of appointing critics reduces all confidence in freedom of the process,” he said.
Horizon is scam It was seen that around 1,000 persons prosecuted and convicted.
Following a legal act that authorized the authorized automated compensation on 25 January 2024, according to the department, about 1 billion pounds have been paid so far.
The investigation of the scam is still on, published the first section of its final report in July.