A Nottinghamshire Post Office worker wrongly convicted in the Horizon IT scandal has died without being fully compensated, an inquiry was told. On Thursday, April 27 the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry’s chairman Sir Wyn Williams announced that Robert Boyle died suddenly earlier in April.
The former subpostmaster had been accused of taking nearly £12,000 in cash from the Alfreton Road sub post office in Nottinghamshire. Mr Boyle was handed a 12-month suspended sentence with 100 hours of unpaid work and an electronically monitored curfew in January 2012 after pleading guilty to theft.
He had his conviction overturned at the Court of Appeal in July last year. The court was told that Mr Boyle had put his home up for sale as he realised the discrepancies in the branch’s finances were not going to be rectified, intending to use the money from the sale to fix the shortfall.
