Post -Iffice scandal request for the publication of the first findings this summer

The public investigation of the post office scandal will publish the first part of his final report this summer, whereby the results for compensation and the human effects of the scandal will be published as soon as possible.

The examination, which lasted about three years, examined a scandal that lasted for two decades and incorrectly blamed and punished for Subpostmasters.

It is described as the greatest miscarriage in the history of the United Kingdom, and over 700 people were lifted due to the full release.

Computer Weekly first unveiled the horizon problems in 2009 and has been investigating since then, including detailed reporting on the examination since they listened to evidence in May 2022.

The chairman of Inquiry, Wyn Williams, who today made the announcement, said: “During my investigation, I heard how people had unimaginable difficulties due to the effects of the horizontal scandal, from false conviction and financial ruins to broken relationships and severe emotional troubles that also held some compensation.

He added that the people affected by the scandal should be the focus of the work of the examination. “It seems suitable that my conclusions about the suffering of so many endured suffering and the problem of reparation are at the top of my report and are published as soon as possible,” said Williams.

After a victory of the High Court in 2019, when subpostmasters, the Horizon computer system, which it used for, was responsible for inexplicable losses, said the first thing the activist Alan Bates, now Sir Alan, said to computer every week that he wanted a legal public examination of the scandal. He got it in May 2021, when a state investigation by the scandal was made by law.

When it was originally set up as a request from the state department without the authority, to call witnesses, there was outrage and allegations of the white washing. After the printing of Subpostmasters and its supporters, the investigation was carried out on a legal foundation with a person responsible and the authority to call up witnesses in order to provide evidence.

The examination was divided into seven phases.

The hearing of human impact was shocking and revealed the extreme suffering of people through the hands of the post. Other phases have shown that the post office has the knowledge that the Horizon software in the introduction of mistakes that public prosecutors changed their statements when they were addressed by the post office, and the lawyers hidden evidence in legal proceedings against Subpostmasters because it would have made their law enforcement unsafe. Directors, politicians and civil servants were also presented who, whether on purpose or not, contributed to the cover -up.

After William's announcement, Sir Alan Bates said that the results of the financial settlement were of crucial importance. “It is good that things will occur, albeit in sections,” he said.

“The chair is right in its comments because it has a priority,” said Bates. “I just hope [financial redress] Completed.”

The Post office scandal was first unveiled by Computer Weekly in 2009 and unveiled the stories of seven subpost masters and the problems they had under the horizon bookkeeping software, which led to the most widespread miscarriage of the judiciary in British history.