Court workers cleared of deleting computer files

Two civil servants accused of scuppering a prosecution by deleting computer files have walked free because of flaws in the court’s £447million IT system. Victoria Fowler, 41, and Aktar Ali, 37, denied deleting files about a prosecution against Ali Hoque, 30, while they worked for the Court Service in east London between February and September 2012. The three were accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice in relation to Mr Hoque’s conviction in April 2011, and he faced…