Bontoft, Dorothy
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Dorothy Bontoft was convicted in September 2004 of false accounting and received a sentence of 15 months’ imprisonment suspended for two years and was ordered to pay £1,500 in costs.
The CCRC received an application for review of the conviction in July 2021.
This was one of the CCRC’s “Post Office” cases, referred on the basis that the prosecution amounted to an abuse of process and that therefore there was a real possibility the appellate court would not uphold the conviction.
You can find out more about Post Office / Horizon cases on the CCRC’s dedicated hub.
You can also find a long read on Post Office cases here.
The CCRC referred the conviction in December 2021.
The Court of Appeal quashed the conviction in March 2022.