Five more postmasters cleared in Horizon scandal

Five former postmasters, wrongly convicted of stealing from their employer because of a flaw in the IT system, were finally cleared in court today (weds) after one of Britain’s biggest miscarriages of justice. Ian Davies, 61, Andrew Gilbertson, 54, Therese Gooding, 62, Elaine Hood and Amer Hussain had their convictions quashed after referrals by the Criminal Cases Review Commission The so-called Horizon scandal resulted in more than 700 post office operators being prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 for theft, fraud…