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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 ...
Scotland’s head of prosecutions has apologised to those prosecuted in the Horizon scandal who were “failed” by the justice system – as she said 54 people may have been affected north of ...
The Post Office Horizon IT scandal has been put in the spotlight again following the release of ITV’s drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, starring actor Toby Jones. – Who is Alan Bates?
The Horizon scandal saw more than 700 subpostmasters and subpostmistresses handed criminal convictions after faulty Fujitsu accounting software made it appear as though money was missing at their ...
Legislation to exonerate the hundreds of subpostmasters in England and Wales convicted as a result of the Horizon scandal was introduced on March 13, which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described as ...
Subpostmasters are self-employed business operators, who run Post Office branches under contract to the state-owned Post Office. [a] In 1999 the Post Office rolled out new electronic point of sale and accounting software, Horizon (produced and maintained by Fujitsu), to its network of over 11,000 branches. [1]
Sub-postmasters in Suffolk claim they were "bullied and blackmailed" as part of a second post office scandal which they said was "as big as Horizon". Jerry Brown, 68, and Adrian Straatman, 63 ...
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.