06-04-2025 09:34 via news.slashdot.org

Were Still More UK Postmasters Also Wrongly Prosecuted Over Accounting Bug?

U.K. postmasters were mistakenly sent to prison due to a bug in their "Horizon" accounting software — as first reported by Computer Weekly back in 2009. Nearly 16 years later, the same site reports that now the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission "is attempting to contact any former subpostmasters that could have been prosecuted for unexplained losses on the Post Office's pre-Horizon Capture software.
"There are former subpostmasters that, like Horizon users, could have been convicte
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