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Watch as Paula Vennells' closing statement was heard in the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry on Tuesday, 17 December. More than 900 subpostmasters were prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 after faulty ...
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 “malignant culture” of the Post Office destroyed the lives of the victims of the Horizon IT scandal, not the system itself, an inquiry has heard. The Horizon IT Inquiry was told the Post ...
The Capture accounting system was used between 1992 and 1999, when it was replace by Horizon. On the final day of the inquiry into Horizon, Ms Vennlls' lawyer Samantha Leek KC claimed that ...
The Post Office has spent £132m of taxpayer money defending itself at the inquiry into the wrongful conviction of hundreds of sub-postmasters, according to the latest available figures.
No charging decisions will be made over potential criminal offences linked to the Post Office Horizon scandal until after a public inquiry has published its final report, police have said.
The judge survived an attempt by the Post Office to have him recused, but by the time he issued a draft judgment on Horizon issues, which found that the systems contained bugs, errors and defects, the litigants had run out of funding and accepted a settlement of £57.75 million from the Post Office. [7]
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.