Post office Horizon Scandal noticed that around 1,000 subpostasters wrongly prosecuted, which was dubbed as the worst abortion of justice in the British legal history.
On Tuesday, The scale of the human influence of the scam was revealed As the first section of the final report of Public Inquiry was published.
Chairman Sir Vyan Williams concluded that the number of “senior” people in the organization knew that the system, known as Ligi Horizon, was capable of error in 2010.
Some employees also knew that the update system, horizon online, also had bugs and defects.
Lead preacher and former subpostamist who Hamilton said the report “shows the full scale of the scary that they launched us”.
The Speaker’s 162 -page report criticized the “unnecessarily adverse attitude” of the post office and offer compensation to the victims to its advisors and the organization and the government “simply failed to understand how difficult it would be to provide proper financial prevention.”
The publication of the first installment of the report on Tuesday was fully focused on the disastrous effects of the scam on the victims and the compensation given to the subpostasters, with another report to be held responsible for a potentially later defect.
The breakdown of the scam and the first section of the report in the number is:
- People were blamed for wrong errors Horizon Software in 16 years, from 1999 to 2015.
- According to the first final report by Sir Vyan Williams, the chairman of the investigation, around 10,000 people are currently eligible to claim in existing compensation plans. It is expected that this number will increase hundreds or more in the coming months.
- The investigation heard the evidence of 59 people who considered suicide and “held responsible for their experiences with it. Horizon And/or Post office“. Among them, the report states that 10 tried to kill their lives, on more than one occasions.
- Sir Vyan said that he does not deny “a real possibility” that there is a “reason relationship” between the suicides of 13 people and Horizon“It is also possible that more than 13 persons, as indicated by Post office In March 2025, in response to the requests for questioning, suicide died, but some deaths have not been reported. Post office Or investigation, ”the report states.
- The report stated that around 1,000 people in the UK were prosecuted and convicted during this period.
- There are four main compensation schemes which have been investigated by the investigation.
- 555 postmasters who took Post office Group litigation order (GL) in the High Court is eligible for the scheme.
- £ 75,000 – How much contender in Glow and Horizon The shortfall scheme (HSS) can accept as a complete and final settlements of its claims. Alternatively, they can ask their claim to fully evaluate.
- £ 600,000 – The amount of overturned punishment process (OC) applicant and Horizon Decoration Prevention Scheme (HCRS) can accept in full and final disposal of its claims. They can also choose to fully evaluate their claims.
- In June, the government said that more than £ 1 billion payments were affected by the subposts. Horizon This is a scam.
- 298 witnesses gave oral evidence in the investigation, which exceeded over three years.
- From February 2021 to December 2024, the investigation was heard for 226 days.
- 788 witnesses made of 24,142 pages were published on the website of investigation.
- 274,604 documents were revealed for the main participants of the investigation.
- The 162-Page report, which will be placed before Parliament on Tuesday, makes 19 immediate recommendations.
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