The Latest Breaking News from Horizon

Tech company knew of faults in system it used to extract data on transactions as early as 2008, inquiry hears

European boss says company has ‘moral obligation’ to contribute but exact sum will have to wait until end of inquiry

Internal records from the tech firm which created Horizon reveal discussions about 'duplicate transactions' within the troubled IT system

Post Office CEO Nick Read and Fujitsu Europe boss Paul Patterson give evidence to business committee about Horizon IT scandal

For over a decade, the Post Office and its supplier, Fujitsu, insisted that the Horizon system used in its branches was completely “robust”. When discrepancies appeared in hundreds of branch accounts across the country, the Post Office refused to believe the system was at fault and didn’t challenge the information…

A 1999 note highlighted concerns of subpostmasters about the Horizon system and heralded decades of ministerial failings

For Graham Livesey, who ran a post office in a Cumbrian village, watching Mr Bates vs The Post Office brought back painful memories

The postmaster's appeal for a retrial has previously been refused

Despite a two-year inquiry and years of campaigning, it was the four-hour drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office that enabled the British public to pay proper attention to the unbelievable horrors of this story

Mother of murdered wife says killer using Horizon scandal to ‘gain publicity’

Dan Neidle, tax lawyer, posted on X saying the Post Office claimed £934m tax relief for its compensation payments, and called it ‘unlawful’.