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UK Post Office’s Horizon IT system flaws drove dozens of sub-postmasters to consider suicide, says damning report – Computerworld

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Last updated: July 9, 2025 4:02 am
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However, even before launch, Fujitsu was aware that Horizon was prone to intermittent “bugs, errors and defects,” the report found. But despite Post Office managers knowing this, “throughout the lifetime of Legacy Horizon, the Post Office maintained the fiction that its data was always accurate,” the report said.

The hundreds of prosecutions that resulted from this are now viewed as the largest miscarriage of justice in British history. It discredited not only the Post Office and Fujitsu managers, but the criminal justice system that for years remained blind to ongoing miscarriages despite repeated complaints by campaigners.

“All of these [prosecuted] people are properly to be regarded as victims of wholly unacceptable behavior perpetrated by a number of individuals employed by and/or associated with the Post Office and Fujitsu from time to time, and by the Post Office and Fujitsu as institutions,” said the report.

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