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European boss of Post Office IT scandal firm Fujitsu to step down

Paul Patterson, who represented firm at Horizon inquiry, will become non-executive chair of UK business

The Guardian - UK

Fujitsu ‘not a parasite’, boss says while refusing to give redress figure for Horizon IT scandal victims

Paul Patterson questioned by MPs as firm continues to make millions from UK government contracts

The Guardian - UK

Police consider corporate manslaughter charges in Post Office scandal

A process of providing case file material to the Crown Prosecution Service is ongoing

The Independent UK

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Post Office scandal victims set to get free legal advice for appeals

Around 1,000 people were wrongly prosecuted and convicted throughout the UK

The Independent UK

Post Office scandal victims to get funded legal advice for appeals

Ministers are accepting all but one of the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal’s recommendations.

Evening Standard

Fujitsu ‘kicking can down the road’ on compensation, says Post Office campaigner

The Government is being urged to stop awarding contracts to the Japanese tech giant.

Evening Standard

Government urges Fujitsu to pay compensation to victims of Post Office scandal

Some victims were sent to prison or financially ruined, others were shunned by their communities, and some took their own lives.

Evening Standard

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Post Office Horizon Scandal: 13 Postmasters Dead by Suicide, 59 'Considered It' After False Theft Claims

The Post Office Horizon Scandal has been reopened, initially taking place between 1999 and 2015. It addressed the plight of wrongfully accused postmasters versus the functionality of a faulty IT system.

International Business Times UK

Post Office inquiry: Key points from the report

The findings from the first report on the scandal have been published

Evening Standard

Post Office Horizon IT scandal: five things we learned from the report

We look at what volume one of the inquiry report describes as the ‘disastrous’ human impact

The Guardian - UK

‘We lost so many along the way’: Horizon scandal victims welcome inquiry report

Those falsely accused by Post Office praise findings, but want to see firmer deadlines on compensation

The Guardian - UK

Government ‘sympathetic’ to Post Office inquiry’s 19 recommendations – minister

The Government will respond ‘properly’ to Sir Wyn’s recommendations by the inquiry’s October 10 deadline, minister Gareth Thomas pledged.

Evening Standard

Post Office inquiry: What happens next?

The inquiry has released the first wave of findings, but what happens now?

Evening Standard

Innocent subpostmasters went to jail, but now it is clear: the Post Office boss class belong there instead

You thought it couldn’t get any worse, but the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history just got wider, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

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International Business Times

UK Post Office Scandal May Have Caused 13 Suicides: Inquiry

Thirteen people caught up in a faulty accounting software scandal at British Post Office branches may have killed themselves and 59 more contemplated doing so, a public inquiry report published Tuesday said.

Euronews

UK Post Office scandal may have led to at least 13 suicides, inquiry finds

About 10,000 people are seeking compensation, revealed the first volume of the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry report.

The Independent UK

At least 13 may have killed themselves over UK's Post Office wrongful convictions scandal

A report says at least 13 people were thought to have taken their own lives as a result of Britain’s Post Office scandal

Evening Standard

Fujitsu getting away ‘scot-free’ from Horizon scandal, says postmaster

Rab Thomson welcomed the first tranche of Sir Wyn Williams’ final report.

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Evening Standard

First Post Office inquiry report stops short of attributing blame

Sir Wyn Williams decided his conclusions on the human impact of the scandal should be published as soon as possible.

The Independent UK

The Post Office scandal in numbers: Inquiry report reveals devastating impact

The scale of the human impact of the scandal has been revealed in the first volume of the public inquiry’s final report

The Independent UK

Post Office scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides, official inquiry finds

Some 10,000 people entitled to compensation after Post Office bosses ‘maintained the fiction’ the Horizon system was accurate, the report found

The Independent UK

Dozens thought about suicide due to Post Office Horizon scandal, report finds

The inquiry chairman said those caught up in the scandal will have ‘found the experience to be troubling at best and harrowing at worst’.

The Independent UK

Post Office bosses ‘maintained fiction’ Horizon was accurate, inquiry concludes

Chairman Sir Wyn Williams published the first tranche of his final report on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

Post Office scandal drove 13 victims to suicide and dozens more considered taking their own lives, damning inquiry report reveals

Inquiry report delivers devastating assessment of the damage done by the scandal, which is one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British history

The Guardian - UK

Post Office scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides, inquiry finds

First report from Horizon IT hearings lays bare ‘disastrous’ human impact as 10,000 people seek compensation

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