iSoft accused face retrial

FORMER executives of healthcare software provider iSoft face a retrial next year.

At a hearing on Friday a decision was made to reschedule the case after the original four-month trial ended in a hung jury in August.

The Financial Services Authority has brought the charges, alleging the med made misleading statements about the company’s revenues.

The accused, former chief executive Tim Whiston, 41, from Lymm, ex-chief operating officer Steve Graham, 48, from Knutsford and 45-year-old John Whelan from Cheadle Hulme, will be retried in April.

All three denied the charge. The offences are alleged to have been carried out between October, 2003 and July, 2006.

A fourth former iSoft executive, co-founder Patrick Cryne, was also charged, but did not stand trial due to ill-health. He has been tentatively listed as a defendant for the retrial.

No one involved in the current proceedings has any involvement with iSoft today, which is now part of US IT services group CSC.