The case of a former Fleetwood sub-postmaster who was convicted of fraud more than a decade ago is being sent back to the courts as part of the fallout from the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.
Thomas Mulhall ran the town’s Lord Street branch and pleaded guilty to a count of fraud by false representation in December 2012 at Fleetwood Magistrates’ Court. He was sentenced to a one-year community order obliging him to do 100 hours of unpaid work and told to pay £2,408 in costs. However, his conviction is one of the latest to be referred to the Crown Court by the Criminal Cases Review Commission as a result of concerns about the faulty Horizon computer system.
Although already introduced in Parliament, it is not known exactly when the Post Office Offences Bill - will come into effect. A referral to the courts means cases can be considered as quickly as possible. The CCRC has now made 76 such referrals. As of the end of February, 103 Horizon-based convictions have been overturned - including 10 cases in which the Post Office was not the prosecutor.
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