UK to bring in law to quash wrongful Post Office convictions
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Between 1999 and 2015 hundreds of local post office managers in UK were convicted of theft and fraud over money that only appeared to be missing because of faults in a new IT system. Also: Ecuador's president declares war on armed gangs after days of violence, and ancient DNA sheds new light on how multiple sclerosis developed.
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| 0:20.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Thursday, the 11th of January, |
| 0:29.0 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:30.0 | The British Prime Minister has promised a new law to exonerate hundreds of post office managers who were wrongly convicted as part of a huge miscarriage of justice. |
| 0:40.0 | The President of Ecuador has said that his country is at a state of war after deadly attacks, |
| 0:46.6 | kidnappings and prison riots in recent days. |
| 0:50.3 | An Austrian heiress is choosing members of the public to help her decide how to give away much of her multi million dollar fortune. |
| 1:00.0 | Also in this podcast, sperm wells have been found to live in distinctive clans just like humans. |
| 1:10.0 | It's one of Britain's biggest miscarriages of justice, a scandal that stretches |
| 1:18.8 | back 20 years and has ruined the lives of hundreds of workers at the state-owned post office |
| 1:24.6 | who were wrongly prosecuted or convicted of theft and fraud |
| 1:28.7 | when actually the real problem was faulty software from a system known as Horizon. |
| 1:35.0 | More than 200 of the post office workers went to prison. |
| 1:39.0 | Many went bankrupt, lost their homes, saw their reputations trashed and their marriages destroyed. |
| 1:45.0 | Some died without getting the chance to clear their names. |
| 1:49.0 | At least four of them took their own lives. |
| 1:52.0 | These post office workers described their ordeal to the BBC. |
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