The post office scandal is the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK legal history and yet it is only now it has captured the public’s attention. From 1999 to 2015 the Post Office Ltd – a company owned by the public via the UK Government – blamed 3500 sub postmasters for financial losses caused by computer errors in its Horizon software system. Last week, we heard during First Minister’s Questions that COPFS was aware of the unreliability of the Horizon system from at least January 2013, but continued with Scottish Post Office prosecutions until 2015. When did senior staff at the Post Office and Fujitsu first become aware of problems with the Horizon system? There is an ongoing public inquiry into the Post Office scandal but that should not prevent the City of London Police’s Serious Fraud Office investigate those at the heart of this egregious injustice.

Source: The Times January 15, 2024 12:11 UTC