Ex-UK Post Office boss 'sorry' over scandal that saw more than 700 convicted due to of bad software
Former UK Post Office CEO Paula Vennells arrives to give evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry in London on 22 May 2024.
More than 700 sub-postmasters running small local post offices received criminal convictions between 1999 and 2015 after the faulty Horizon accounting software from Fujitsu made it appear that money had gone missing from their branches. Many ended up bankrupt and shunned by their communities. Some were jailed. At least four people took their own lives.
The inquiry's lawyer Jason Beer suggested to Vennells that she was unable to remember matters that could incriminate the Post Office, but had"no problem" recalling events that placed blame on others.Vennells and other Post Office bosses are being accused of pursuing prosecutions against the subpostmasters despite knowing that there were issues with the IT system that introduced errors into the accounting figures of individual post office branches.
It unveiled legislation in March to exonerate those wrongly prosecuted and said it would also act to improve the compensation available to different groups of subpostmasters.
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