Get email updates with the day's biggest stories Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. “Nearly 700 staff might have had their convictions quashed years ago if the Post Office and Fujitsu had not covered up software flaws. They need to explain why this happened.”(Image: PA)So far 47 staff, wrongly accused of stealing from tills when computer glitches were to blame, have had their guilty verdicts overturned. There is no suggestion anyone deliberately altered information to make postmasters take the blame for accounting errors. The Post Office said: “We are sorry for past failures and have undertaken wholesale reforms.”

Source: Daily Mirror May 15, 2021 19:42 UTC