Police probe UK Post Office for accusing over 700 employees of theft. The culprit was an IT glitch
Saturday, 6 January 2024 UK police have opened a fraud investigation into the British Post Office over a miscarriage of justice that saw hundreds of postmasters wrongfully accused of stealing money due to a faulty computer system. The investigation is looking into potential fraud offenses, perjury, and perverting the course of justice. The Post Office used a defective computer accounting system called Horizon, supplied by Fujitsu, which wrongly showed that money was missing. The Court of Appeal quashed 39 convictions and a public inquiry into the scandal has been underway since 2022.
The Post Office Horizon scandal has been dubbed the most "widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history". Now it has been made into a TV drama. ITV's ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ tells the story of how hundreds of local post office branch managers were wrongly accused of theft,...
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Former Post Office minister Sir Ed Davey speaks on the Post Office inquiry, after the scandal was publicised from a TV drama. The Liberal Democrats leader says the Post Office “lied to the British..
Armed Forces Minister James Heappey speaks about the Post Office Inquiry, after a TV drama resurfaced the scandal. He speaks about former Post Office Minister Sir Ed Davey, saying “he clearly did not..