“I am not suggesting Horizon exonerates Robin. But it raises the possibility that the prosecution’s motive is built on data from deeply unreliable software.”
Robin Garbutt is serving life for killing his wife above the post office they ran. The prosecution’s motive was theft, built on records from the Post Office’s Horizon system. Horizon is the software that got hundreds of subpostmasters wrongly prosecuted. The review commission called the undisclosed Post Office records significant and rejected his application anyway.