Post Office Horizon Inquiry calls for compensation to be brought forward
An inquiry into one of the UK's greatest IT scandals has called for compensation offered by the government to victims falsely accused of fraud to be brought forward and strengthened.before Parliament, inquiry chair Sir Wyn Williams said the government should resolve issues blocking full and fair compensation to sub-postmasters affected by the Horizon scandal.
Between 2000 and 2014, 736 managers of local Post Office branches around Britain were criminally convicted of financial fraud when errors in a nationwide accounting system, Horizon, were to blame. Faced with significant shortfalls between reported revenues and takings, some subpostmasters resorted to putting their own money into their franchised branches to balance the books. When Horizon continued throwing up discrepancies, Post Office managers accused the subpostmasters of stealing the money. Private prosecutions and criminal convictions followed.
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