The UK government announced that every postmaster convicted because of Fujitsu’s flawed Horizon IT system will be offered hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation.
More than 700 people running small local post offices were found guilty of false accounting and theft between 1999 and 2015 because the Horizon system insisted money was missing. The Post Office and Fujitsu made matters worse by not telling anyone that the software was turning up an unlikely number of criminals.
Reports from Computing Magazine at the time found IT workers in the Post Office and Fujitsu who knew the system was borked and had told their managers.
Some owners of local Post Office were imprisoned or left out of pocket after being asked to make up the shortfalls, while others failed to find other jobs and lost their homes.
