US EditionThe Post Office victims driven to suicide by the Horizon scandal
UNITED KINGDOM, JUL 9 – The inquiry report reveals wrongful convictions linked to faults in the Horizon IT system, with victims facing imprisonment, mental health crises, and lifelong consequences, according to Sir Wyn Williams.
- On July 8, the Horizon inquiry published its first report exposing the severe human impact of the Post Office scandal across the UK.
- The scandal arose from faulty Horizon software that wrongly prosecuted about 1,000 subpostmasters between 1999 and 2015 for alleged theft and shortfalls.
- The inquiry revealed at least 59 people contemplated suicide, 10 attempted it, and 13 died possibly linked to the scandal’s devastating psychological effects.
- Betty Brown, 92, former Annfield Plain postmistress, described losing her voice from stress and feeling forced to sell her branch after weekly losses of £1,500‑£1,600 appeared.
- The report criticized Post Office’s adversarial compensation stance and urged clear public commitments for full redress amid ongoing victim hardships and legal complexities.
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der Standard DEA software had over a decade of British postshop operators falsely missing money. In about a thousand cases, they were wrongly convicted, a report now shows – with appalling consequences
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The investigation report on the Royal Mail Horizon scandal is now available. Post workers were accused of a software error of embezzlement and criminalized. At least 13 of them committed suicide.
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