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CartwrightKing
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Private and Confidential
Messrs Raja & Co,
295 Balham High Road,
Tooting Bec,
London,
SWI17 7BA
Date: 25 September 2014
Our Ref: MS2/44948
Dear Sirs
Re: Senapathy Narenthiran - Kingston Crown Court
We write to your firm as being the solicitors on the file representing this defendant in
the proceedings which resulted in him being sentenced on 3ā February 2009 to a term
of 3 years imprisonment for offences of theft.
On the 8" July 2013 a report into the operations of the Horizon system was published
by an independent organisation which had been commissioned by our clients, Post
Office Ltd. The report is known as the Second Sight Interim Report.
We have thoroughly reviewed both the prosecution case and that of your client and in
particular his Defence Statements, in the light of material contained within the Second
Sight Interim Report. We have also reconsidered our disclosure duties under the CPIA
1996 and the Code of Practice enacted thereunder, and the A-Gās Guidelines on
Disclosure. We are also alive to our duties under the common law relating to cases
which have been concluded.
We have formed the firm view that, had the prosecution been possessed of the
material contained within the report during the currency of the prosecution of your
client, we should and would have disclosed that material to you in compliance with
our disclosure duties.
The prosecution recognises its obligation post conviction to disclose any information
which may affect the safety of a conviction. Accordingly we now disclose the report
to you so that you are able to consider whether your client may have grounds for an
appeal against his conviction.
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We would also remind you of your duty not to disclose this material to any third party
other than your client.
Yours faithfully
Cartwright King
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