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Private and Confidential
Messrs Trinity Advocates,
First Floor,
4 Baring Crescent,
Exeter,
EX1 1TL
For the attention of Mr. P Seigne
Date: 17 October 2014
Our Ref: MS2/44948
Dear Sirs
Re: Peter Huxham ā Exeter 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 29" March 2010 to a term
of 8 months imprisonment for an offence of fraud.
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 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 and/or sentence.
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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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