All news on the topic: Horizon

BBC broadcaster Nicky Campbell was speaking to 77-year-old former subpostmistress Karen Jolliffe over the Post Office scandal that left her life in ruins as she was jailed for a crime she didn't commit

Rishi Sunak told MPs today that Horizon convictions will be quashed on a "blanket basis" with each victim being handed a £75,000 compensation payment after a public outcry in the wake of the ITV drama ' Mr Bates vs the Post Office'

Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake admitted it was 'mistake' that ministers did not remove Paula Vennells from her role on the board of the Cabinet Office sooner

Traumatised Janet Skinner was wrongly accused of stealing nearly £60,000 from her Post Office in Hull, Yorkshire, and was sent to prison for nine months in 2007 aged 35

Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake admitted it was a mistake to award Paula Vennells a CBE in 2019, despite hundreds of workers' lives being torn apart by the greatest miscarriage of justice in British history

Since 2012 – more than a decade after the Post Office accounting scandal began – the public sector has awarded Fujitsu almost 200 contracts worth £6.8billion in total, analyst says

Marion Holmes says her husband Peter was “destroyed” when he had to plead guilty to false accounting in order for the police to drop the theft charge in a plea bargain

The ex-postmaster Alan Bates who led the decades-long fight to expose the scandal previously said he would not accept an award while former Post Office boss Paula Vennells had a CBE

Mr Bates Vs The Post Office has left ITV viewers across the nation horrified with the emotional story of sub-postmasters whose lives were wrecked by a faulty computer system. But who is Paula Vennells and what exactly was her involvement in the shocking scandal?

Paula Vennells is the former head of the Post Office and was in charge when hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters were wrongfully convicted for theft, fraud and false accounting. She has now handed back her CBE following escalating calls for her to do so after the hard-hitting ITV drama

The former Post Office boss Paula Vennells was awarded a CBE in 2019 to services to the organisation despite hundreds of workers' lives being torn apart over the Horizon IT scandal

The victims of the Post Office scandal have been waiting for justice for too long and we should clear their names for good, writes Conservative MP and former minister David Davis

Paul Scully, who was Post Office Minister, said the Treasury demanded a value for money exercise was done before agreeing to giving further money to victims including Alan Bates

Evidence from Horizon, a faulty computer system rolled out by Fujitsu, secured the prosecutions of 700 sub-postmasters between 2000 and 2014, with the Post Office prosecuting them for false accounting, fraud and theft

Post Office scandal victim and campaigner Alan Bates had joked he would love a holiday from Richard Branson, with his comment appearing to have become reality

Jess Kaur - a victim of the Post Office scandal - broke down in tears today on Good Morning Britain as she spoke about how the devastating impact on her and her family

The petition has quickly gained signatures after ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office shone a light on the Horizon IT scandal that led to hundreds of lives being ruined

A former sub-postmaster wrongly accused in the Post Office scandal had to flee the UK to escape the devastation caused by one of Britain's largest ever miscarriages of justice

Letters between Sir Ed Davey, then-Minister for Postal Affairs, and Alan Bates, a former sub-postmaster and campaigner, reveal Sir Ed's willingness to believe the Post Office

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has confirmed the Government is looking at how to exonerate hundreds of sub-postmasters unjustly convicted during the Horizon IT scandal

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Serious problems with the Post Office’s Horizon accounting software, supplied by Japanese firm Fujitsu in 1999, were wrongly being blamed on innocent staff who were sacked or suspended

The actor asked how those responsible can live with themselves, adding it was “vile” that ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells got a CBE.

Mr Bates Vs The Post Office has left viewers across the nation gobsmacked with the harrowing story of sub-postmasters whose lives were destroyed by a faulty computer system. But who is Paula Vennells and what exactly was her involvement in the shocking scandal?

Noel Thomas was sentenced to nine months in prison after being wrongly convicted in the Post Office IT scandal currently being highlighted in a new ITV drama - here he tells how it still affects him and his family to this day as their fight for justice continues