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The scandal has resurfaced following the release of the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office. ... 2024 at 11:34 AM. ... The Post Office Horizon IT scandal has been put in the spotlight again ...
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 ...
Paula Anne Vennells was born on 21 February 1959, [1] [2] in Denton, Lancashire, where she grew up. [3] [4] [5] Her father was an industrial chemist and academic, her mother a great-granddaughter of Sir James Watts of Abney Hall, mayor of Manchester in the 1850s and grandfather of Conservative party member of Parliament James Watts. [3]
The majority of Post Office witnesses at the inquiry have not been able to recall much about their time at the company as the scandal unfolded and subpostmasters are hoping Ms Vennells will shed ...
Lee Castleton OBE (born () 1 January 1969 [1] [2]) is an English former subpostmaster who was sued by the Post Office and bankrupted after his accounts showed discrepancies due the Post Office's faulty Horizon accounting software. He has since become a prominent campaigner for other victims of the British Post Office scandal.
Leading subpostmaster campaigners who have been made Officers of the British Empire have vowed they will “never give in” in their fight to help fellow Post Office scandal victims receive full ...
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. She ...
The ITV show, “Mr. Bates vs the Post Office,” told the story of branch manager Alan Bates, played by Toby Jones, who has spent nearly two decades trying to expose the scandal and exonerate his ...