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UK Post Office glitch led to 1,000 false convictions and at least 13 suicides over 16 years: report
UNITED KINGDOM, JUL 8 – At least 13 postmasters may have died by suicide after wrongful convictions linked to a faulty IT system, with over 900 convictions under review, officials said.
- At least 13 victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal may have taken their own lives, according to a report by Sir Wyn Williams.
- The inquiry revealed that a total of 59 victims contemplated suicide, with 10 attempts reported.
- Sir Wyn recommended that the Government and the Post Office clarify what they mean by 'full and fair redress.'
- The report indicates that the number of people eligible for compensation claims is expected to increase significantly.
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The workload and the conditions in which the activity takes place have been the subject of debate in the French public administration for years. What the French Ministry of Economy is experiencing, however, has the face of an epidemic. Since 1 January, 12 people under the General Directorate of Public Finance (DGFiP) have committed suicide in France, and eight others have tried, according to Le Monde published on Tuesday and confirmed this newsp…
Almost 25 years after the first victims were registered, a report has made clear the consequences of the “Horizon IT Scandal”: an error in software that ended up ruining officials of the British Post Office, causing them depression and even leading to suicide. A public investigation around the case, released this week, reveals that at least 13 employees took their lives as a result of the mistakes, and 59 others contemplated that option. The sca…
Eight more people attempted it, and the unions are investigating whether the cases are related to the work taking place in the office.
Report lays bare suffering from UK Post Office scandal
The mental, physical and financial toll of one of Britain's worst miscarriages of justice has been revealed in a report on the years-long UK Post Office IT scandal. From 1999 to 2015, nearly 1,000 postal employees were wrongly prosecuted or convicted of criminal wrongdoing because of a faulty computer system. The inquiry has found at least 13 people may have taken their own lives as a result of the scandal.
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