Post Office and Fujitsu employees were aware of the flaws in the Horizon IT system yet falsely claimed it was error-free, leading to the wrongful prosecution of nearly 1,000 sub-postmasters from 1999 to 2015. A public inquiry has called for compensation for victims and oversight of redress schemes, highlighting the devastating impact on those affected, including at least 10 suicides.
Explain It To Me Like I’m 5: The Post Office used a faulty computer system that wrongly accused many workers of stealing money, leading to serious problems for them, and now a report says that the Post Office should help fix the mistakes they made.
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