By Josh White For The Daily Mail
Published: 01:11 GMT, 16 March 2019 | Updated: 03:17 GMT, 16 March 2019
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Village postmasters who say they were wrongly accused of stealing due to Post Office computer glitches hailed an 'emphatic win' in their long-running legal battle yesterday.
More than 550 postal workers are involved in a group legal action against the Post Office over the Horizon IT system introduced between 1999 and 2000.
Represented by six lead claimants, they say the system had software defects that caused shortfalls in their accounts, leading to them being wrongly accused of theft and dishonesty.
Alan Bates, above, one of the lead claimants in the case and a representative of the group Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance, said it was 'a major step forward to achieving justice'. The Post Office is rigorously defending the case
The case has been entangled in complex arguments about the legal relationship between the subpostmasters and the Post Office, but yesterday the High Court made a series
