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The 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 Tuesday, Sir Wyn Williams delivered the first inquiry report, which found 59 victims contemplated suicide and 10 attempted it due to Horizon or Post Office actions.
- Investigation reveals faulty Fujitsu Horizon software caused about 1,000 wrongful prosecutions from 1999 to 2015, with Post Office bosses aware of errors but maintaining data accuracy.
- Felstead's wrongful 2002 conviction led to two suicide attempts and psychiatric hospitalization, highlighting the human toll of the Horizon scandal.
- Betty Brown told PA her day was 'amazing' after the report and continues campaigning for full redress, despite losing her voice and her husband's cancer treatment being affected.
- Williams estimates about 10,000 individuals can now submit compensation claims, with numbers expected to increase by hundreds in the coming months.
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The Horizon scandal, sponsored by the British Post Office and the Fujitsu computer system, became one of the biggest disasters...
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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.
County Durham woman who is 'oldest' victim of Post Office scandal says ordeal destroyed health
Betty Brown, who ran the Annfield Plain Post Office with her late husband Oswall, was so stressed by the time she retired she had to learn to speak again
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