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Fujitsu has a moral obligation to help compensate UK postmasters wrongly convicted because of a bug in its accounting software, its European director said on Tuesday.

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

The team behind the hit ITV drama had low expectations throughout

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Jane Stevenson joins Conservative party’s deputy chairs in resigning on a bruising night for Rishi Sunak

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

Lives destroyed, injustices ignored: parallels between the two scandals are stark, says the Guardian reporter Amelia Gentleman

Company that built ill-fated system also comes under separate scrutiny from judge-led inquiry

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…

That it took an ITV television drama to force the political establishment to turn its attention to the egregious nature of the Post Office scandal is perhaps for another day. Now is the time for heads to roll.