The Post Office Scandal.

The British Post Office scandal, also called the Horizon IT scandal, involved Post Office Limited pursuing thousands of innocent subpostmasters for shortfalls in their accounts, which had in fact been caused by faults in Horizon, accounting software developed and maintained by Fujitsu. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting based on faulty Horizon data, with about 700 of these prosecutions carried out by the Post Office. Other subpostmasters were prosecuted but not convicted, forced to cover Horizon shortfalls with their own money, or had their contracts terminated. The court cases, criminal convictions, imprisonments, loss of livelihoods and homes, debts, and bankruptcies took a heavy toll on the victims and their families, leading to stress, illness, family breakdown, and at least four suicides. In 2024, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the scandal as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history.


This is the biggest injustice in British History, how on earth was it allowed to happen in a civilised country, if my Partner was imprisoned like these Sub-Postmasters I would of lobbied my MP or MS visited my local Citizens Advice Bureau obviously their did do go down these routes and never got anywhere, the sad thing about all this was it took a television programme to get everyone to sit up and take notice.

Shame on all these people like Members of Parliament and Citizen Advice Bureau personnel who never helped or got this sorted they are all as much to blame as Senior Post Office Officials I wish we could as a nation make sure any similar injustice never happens again.