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Herd, Elena

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Elena Herd was convicted in November 2011 of fraud and received a sentence of four months’ imprisonment suspended for one year, 200 hours of community service, and was ordered to pay £500 in compensation and costs of £100.

The CCRC received an application for review of the conviction in August 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 July 2022.

The Crown Court quashed the conviction in November 2022.