IN-DEPTH: EncroChat Defendants Say Post Office Scandal Gives Them Hope

Several people being prosecuted in Britain for criminal offences based on evidence from the French police’s hacking of the EncroChat encrypted phone network say the Post Office scandal and the exposure of the flawed Horizon software has given them hope of being exonerated. But a senior barrister and King’s counsel (KC) with intimate knowledge of the EncroChat affair has told The Epoch Times he believes the legal establishment will find an “intellectually dishonest” means of preserving the convictions. In spring 2020 French police broke the encryption used by EncroChat and obtained hundreds of thousands of messages from users, many of them believed to be organised criminals based in Britain....