- Senior Post Office criminal legal representative
- Following orders
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- Karl Flinders, Chief press reporter and senior editor EMEA
Released: 01 Dec 2023 8:45
A previous Post Office senior criminal attorney, who commemorated a court success that sent out a pregnant female to jail without proof of a criminal offense, spreads blame for his life-destroying actions and inactiveness.
Jarnail Singh, who operated in the Post Office’s criminal law group as a senior legal representative throughout a duration when numerous subpostmasters were prosecuted for monetary criminal offenses based upon proof from a flawed computer system, referred to as Horizon, was questioned in the newest hearing in the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry
His name is popular in the general public query, appearing in lots of files throughout the existing stage, which is taking a look at the conduct of legal groups at the Post Office at a time when the organisation prompted the largest miscarriage of justice in UK history.
In May, the questions heard that in 2012, Singh made celebratory remarks to coworkers in an e-mail following the effective prosecution of previous subpostmaster Seema Misra, who was sent out to jail after being discovered guilty of theft when inexplicable accounting deficiencies appeared in her branch, regardless of their being no proof versus her. Throughout the trial, Misra raised the possibility that the Horizon system might be to blame for the accounting shortages.
In the e-mail, Singh composed: “After a prolonged trial at Guildford Crown Court [Seema Misra] was condemned of theft.” and more…
