It does not matter whether he personally knew. The prosecutions were “so egregious as to make the prosecution of any of the “Horizon cases” an affront to the conscience of the court”.
The CPS are responsible for the vast majority of prosecutions in this country and they brought at least three “egregious” Horizon cases. It raises into question how they proceed against other defendants, most of whom are not sympathetic, middle-class pillars of the community and have even less chance of fighting it that the subpostmasters did.
Starmer headed up the CPS and he was responsible for prosecutorial conduct at the time. He cannot claim ignorance as a defence. He should be committing to finding out what the hell went wrong and making sure it can never happen again, to anybody.
Yes they are. Probably not in the country that calls it transit, mind. And lots of people would like to be able to have more private conversations in public, whether or not they’re travelling at the time.
Plus, I’ve seen a lot of threads over the years from gamers, or the people who have to live with them, looking for something exactly like this.