Dorothy Bontoft

Year conviction was overturned:
2022

Ms Bontoft was convicted of false accounting and received a sentence of 15 months imprisonment suspended for two years and was ordered to pay £1,500 in costs. Her conviction was overturned on the basis that evidence against her came from the flawed Horizon computer system.

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  • Offence: False accounting
  • Jurisdiction: England & Wales
  • Gender: F
  • Offence convicted of: False accounting
  • Year of initial conviction: 2004
  • Year conviction was overturned: 2022
  • CCRC Referral: Y
  • Post Office Case: Y
  • Retrial: N