Rinder: Bring on court case

TV judge backing bid to have ex-Post Office boss prosecuted over scandal

- SANJEETA BAINS

TV'S Judge Rob Rinder has called for Paula Vennells, the boss during the Post Office scandal, to be prosecuted for criminal negligence.

Hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongly convicted of theft in the biggest single miscarriage of justice in British history.

Between 1999 and 2015, the Post Office prosecuted 700 of them based on information from a faulty computer system called Horizon.

Some went to prison following convictions for false accounting and theft.

Earlier this month, Rinder, a criminal barrister, presented The Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Award to Special Recognition former postmaster Alan Bates.

Alan campaigned for almost 20 years to get justice for colleagues whose lives were destroyed by the scandal.