BETWEEN THE YEARS OF 2000 and 2015, 738 sub-postmasters and mistresses were prosecuted by the Post Office for theft or fraud. They were for the most part respectable middle class citizens, many of whom had invested their life savings in a village shop with post office attached
The explanation was simple: when the Post Office had decided to computerise their accounting system they contracted Fujitsu, a massive Bracknell-based Japanese tech corp, to initiate the change. The result was the Horizon IT system, with terminals installed in Post Offices throughout the country, all of them infected with deadly bugs which made them incapable of doing
