In one of the worst judicial errors, the delivery service mistakenly sued about 1,000 in charge of branches between 1999 and 2015
The scandal involving workers from the service of Mail British may have motivated 13 suicides and provoked suicidal ideas in 59 people, according to the inquiry report made public on Tuesday (8). In one of the worst judicial errors in the United Kingdomthe Post Office mistakenly sued about 1,000 in charge of branches between 1999 and 2015. Errors of Fujitsu’s Legacy Horizon Accounting Software, made it seem that values would have disappeared from agencies.
More than 700 of these employees were prosecuted for theft and forgery of accounts. Many were bankrupt, after being forced by the Post Office to pay the amount as a reimbursement. Some were arrested. Dozens of those who were later exonerated died without ever seeing their names clean.
The head of the inquiry, Wyn Williams, explained that there is a “real possibility” that 13 people have committed suicide as a result of the suffering they suffered. According to the report, ten people would have tried to take their lives and 59 thought of doing so.
Many processes began after doubts arose about the reliability of the software in question. Policy is investigating possible scandal fraud. “I found satisfactory evidence that a number of lower stresses and employees of the Post Office knew or at least should know that Legacy Horizon was subject to error,” Williams said in the report. “However … the post office kept the version that their data have always been accurate,” he said.
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In January 2024, a series aired by ITV broadcaster, centered on the judicial battle of Alan Bates, one of the scandal victim of the scandal post, brought the case back to the center of public attention. Since then, the court has annulled several convictions and an investigation committee has studied the case, that British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has qualified as “one of the greatest judicial errors in history” of the United Kingdom.
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Nátaly Tenório
Source: Jovempan
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