article_snippet: Judge William Hart threw out the case against Leslie and Sarah Grant because  the Department of Work and Pensions lost letters written by Mr Grant that would have supported Judge William Hart .
article_snippet: The 67-year-old from Cheltenham insisted Judge William Hart had written to the DWP notifying the DWP of a change in Judge William Hart financial circumstances.
article_snippet: During the trial the Department of Work and Pensions denied ever receiving letters written by Mr Grant that would have supported his case but in evidence yesterday Tracey Tye, a the DWP investigator, conceded there was a computer record of letters being received from Judge William Hart.
article_snippet: Judge Hart ruled that because the prosecution was unable to produce letters written by Mr Grant that would have supported his case to show whether Sarah and Leslie Grant contained what Leslie Grant alleged it would be unsafe to leave case to the jury.
article_snippet: Judge Hart directed the jury to find Sarah and Leslie Grant not guilty of defrauding the DWP between 2009 and 2011.
article_snippet: Hearing: Judge William Hart threw out the case at Gloucester Crown Court (above) after a DWP blunder .
highlights_snippet: Government had denied ever receiving series of letters from Mr Grant .
  
highlights_snippet: But judge threw out case after investigator admitted they had got  they .