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Private and Confidential
Messrs Belmores,
Solicitors,
40 Crown Road,
Norwich,
NRI 3DX
Date: 25 September 2015
Our Ref: MS2/44948
Dear Sirs
Re: Alison Henderson ā Norwich Crown Court
We write to your firm as being the solicitors on the file representing this defendant in
the proceedings which resulted in her being sentenced on 15'" December 2010 to a
Community Order of 12 months with a requirement that she complete a total of 200
hours of unpaid work for an offence of false accounting.
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 her Defence Statement and amended Defence Statement, 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 her 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
Simon Clarke - Barrister
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