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More than 700 subpostmasters were prosecuted by the Post Office and handed criminal convictions between 1999 and 2015.
The British Post Office scandal, also called the Horizon IT scandal, involved the Post Office pursuing thousands of innocent subpostmasters for apparent financial shortfalls caused by faults in Horizon, an accounting software system developed by Fujitsu. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were convicted of theft, fraud and ...
The Post Office told the select committee in December that legal fees had made up £136m of the cost of administering the Post Office-led schemes since 2020, which is around 27% of the ...
Josephine Hamilton OBE (born 1957 [2] [3]) is a former subpostmaster and a campaigner for justice for victims of the British Post Office scandal.She ran a village post office in Hampshire from 2001 until 2006, when she was suspended and then wrongly prosecuted for shortfalls caused by the Post Office faulty accounting software, Horizon.
The scandal has resurfaced following the release of the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office. ... miscarriage of justice in UK history. The scandal has recently come back into the spotlight ...
The series is a dramatisation of the British Post Office scandal, a miscarriage of justice in which hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted (privately and publicly) for theft, false accounting or fraud due to a faulty computer system called Horizon. It was broadcast on four consecutive days from 1 January 2024.
Metropolitan Police detectives are looking at “potential fraud offences” committed during the Horizon IT scandal. More than 700 Post Office branch managers were handed criminal convictions ...
Bates & Others v Post Office Ltd was a UK group legal action taken by 555 subpostmasters against Post Office Limited, commonly known as the Post Office, the state-owned post office company. It was heard by Justice Fraser in the High Court between 2017 and 2019.