Tuesday will mark a major milestone in the long road to justice for the victims of the Post Office IT scandal following a far-reaching inquiry. Part of a final report will be published focusing on compensation and the human impact of what is believed to be one of the biggest miscarriages of justices in UK history. Thousands of sub-postmasters were wrongly blamed for financial losses from the Post Office’s faulty Horizon computer system, which was developed by Fujitsu.More than 900 people were prosecuted and 236 were sent to prison.Sir Wyn Williams, chair of the long-running inquiry, has put victims at the heart of the work, which has pored over several decades worth of technical evidence and grilled many of those who had a role in ruining so many lives. Dozens of sub-postmasters have given evidence, many who had lost their businesses, their homes and some who were jailed.Sir Wyn’s findings on their treatment will surely be damning, given everything he has heard since the inquiry began in 2022.The scandal came to wider public attention last year after it was depicted in an ITV drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office.The inquiry itself became almost box office viewing – racking up more than 20 million views on YouTube, with people with no connection to the Post Office following it closely.However, it is going to be months before we find out who Sir Wyn will point the finger of blame at.That will come in the next part of the report, meaning that …
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