DWP launches independent review into Post Office staff prosecutions
The Ministry of Labor and Retirement is initiating an independent investigation to address prosecution against post office personnel.
There were about 100 prosecution by DWP between 2001 and 2006, scandal during the horizon.
The decision to review the study on the cases comes after its emergence. The post office investigation team shared information with DWP.
The investigation will look at the period of 2024 Post Office (Horizon System) from 1996 to 2018.
This was the legislation that gave the blanket exonation effectively for the convicted personnel at that time, but did not contain convictions on DWP.
DWP and the post office made joint investigations during the scandal. Sky News Last May.
Sir Robert Neill KC, who then responded to the findings, lawyers and later the Justice Election Committee, said DWP convictions should be “looking ..
“I think that if we say that their approaches were stained from the beginning, the area they need to look at – as the researchers adopted something – then the common operations I suspected would be stained like something of the post office on its own.”
A DWP spokesman said: “We have decided to conduct an independent assurance examination in which post office personnel members were prosecuted by the fraud department on welfare.
“These cases contained complex investigations and supported with evidence such as surveillance, stolen benefits and witness statements.
Lawyer Neil Hudgell, who represented a few victims of the post office scandal, added that the investigation was “completely inadequate ve and DWP should not” mark his own homework “.
“Any participation in the assignment process weakens all confidence in the independence of the process.” He said.
Horizon BT scandal He saw that about 1,000 people were misguided and convicted.
After a legal action that came into force on January 25, 2024, according to the Ministry of Labor and Trade, the victims have been paid about £ 1 billion.
The scandal, which has released the first volume of the final report in July, is still ongoing.
