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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

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Post Office inquiry: What happens next?

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

Evening Standard

‘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.

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

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.

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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.

Euronews

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

The Independent UK

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.

Evening Standard

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

The Independent UK

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.

Evening Standard

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

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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.

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.

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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

Evening Standard

Horizon IT scandal final report will be ‘monumental’, says ex-subpostmaster

More than 900 subpostmasters were wrongfully prosecuted between 1999 and 2015, with many wrongly convicted of theft and false accounting.

Evening Standard

Post Office Inquiry to deliver verdict on compensation for victims of one of UK's biggest scandals

Victims of the Post Office scandal have repeatedly criticised the compensation scheme

Evening Standard

Which are the subpostmaster redress schemes and what criticism have they faced?

Many subpostmasters are still awaiting full compensation.

The Guardian - UK

Macron tells UK parliament that Europe must end its dependency on the US and China – as it happened

The French president is addressing parliament on the first day of his state visit to the UK

Evening Standard

First tranche of final report from Horizon scandal inquiry to be published

The first volume is set to cover the devastating impact the scandal had on Post Office victims and the compensation process.

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