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British Post Office scandal. The British Post Office scandal, also called the Horizon IT scandal, involved the Post Office pursuing thousands of innocent subpostmasters for apparent financial shortfalls caused by faults in Horizon, an accounting software system developed by Fujitsu. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were ...
Suzanne Sercombe. Sir Alan Bates (born 1954 or 1955) [1] is a former subpostmaster and a leading campaigner for victims of the British Post Office scandal, in which thousands of subpostmasters were accused of dishonesty when faulty Post Office accounting software created shortfalls in their accounts. After the Post Office terminated his ...
The scandal has resurfaced following the release of the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office. ... miscarriage of justice in UK history. The scandal has recently come back into the spotlight ...
From 2018, having left the BBC, he started reporting the Bates & Others v Post Office Ltd trial on a dedicated blog, www.postofficetrial.com, having raised £9,000 through crowd-funding. He co-wrote Private Eye ' s 2020 report "Justice Lost in the Post". His book The Great Post Office Scandal was published in 2021.
Post Office scandal victim to receive honour. July 8, 2024 at 5:48 PM. Noel Thomas was locked up for false accounting in 2006 after his books fell short by £48,000 [PA Media]
"One of the things the Post Office scandal shows quite vividly is that things go wrong," he said. "But when things go wrong don't cover it up - because the cover-up can be worse than the crime."
Paula Anne Vennells (born 21 February 1959) is a British former businesswoman who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Post Office Limited from 2012 to 2019, years which saw the continuing prosecution of innocent subpostmasters and a very costly and unsuccessful attempt to defend a group action. She is also an ordained Anglican priest who ...
More than 700 branch managers around the UK were prosecuted by the Post Office between 1999 and 2015 when the faulty Horizon accounting software led to false accusations of stolen money from their ...