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Post Office could hand ownership to employees amid review into its future

The Department for Business and Trade launched a new green paper on Monday alongside a three-month consultation over the organisation’s future.

Evening Standard

Voices: Why is Fujitsu still winning government contracts in the wake of the Post Office scandal?

COMMENT : Before the Horizon IT system was found to be deficient, some victims were financially ruined, some imprisoned – and some took their own lives. Yet in the last year, Fujitsu still picked up more than 20 contracts worth nearly £800m. What sort of ‘justice’ is this, asks James…

The Independent UK

Voices: I’m a Post Office scandal victim – the only reason I didn’t kill myself in prison was my unborn child

COMMENT: An official inquiry has found that the Horizon scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides. Former subpostmistress Seema Misra says she came close to being one of them

The Independent UK

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Self-serving Post Office bosses deserve nothing short of prison

Letters: Readers respond to Marina Hyde’s article on the publication of the first volume of the inquiry report on the Horizon scandal

The Guardian - UK

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

OPINION - Post Office Horizon scandal: Will the postmasters receive justice? ...The Standard podcast

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Wednesday briefing: Can Macron and Starmer solve the small-boats crisis?

In today’s newsletter: As the French president arrives in the UK for a state visit, tackling migrant crossings in the Channel is top of the agenda

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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

The Guardian view on the Post Office scandal: justice delayed, redress demanded and a nation’s shame exposed

Editorial: The public inquiry judge delivered a blistering moral verdict on a public institution that turned on its own people with devastating consequences

The Guardian - 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?

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‘Oldest’ victim of Horizon IT scandal says ordeal ‘destroyed’ her health

Betty Brown, 92, from County Durham, ran the Annfield Plain Post Office with her late husband when the faulty Horizon software was introduced.

The Guardian - UK

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

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.

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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

The Post Office Horizon Scandal: A timeline of what happened and the subsequent ramifications

The timeline of events involved in the Post Office Horizon scandal goes all the way back to 1999.

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 key events leading up to Post Office inquiry report publication

The Post Office Horizon IT inquiry is due to publish a final report – here we look at the key events in the scandal

Evening Standard

Post Office scandal report ‘shows full scale of horror unleashed on victims’

The report said 59 victims of the scandal contemplated suicide with 10 attempting to take their own lives.

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 National (Scotland)

Almost 60 people contemplated suicide amid Post Office scandal, report says

ALMOST 60 people who experienced problems with the Post Office's Horizon IT system contemplated taking their own lives, an inquiry has found.

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