Another Post Office worker wrongly convicted in the Horizon IT scandal has died without being fully compensated, an inquiry was told. On Thursday the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry’s chairman Sir Wyn Williams announced that Robert Boyle died suddenly earlier in April.
It comes after The Times reported that almost 60 subpostmasters wrongfully convicted for fraud in the 2000s and 2010 due to accounting flaws caused by the Horizon IT system had died without being fully compensated. Sir Wyn told the public inquiry he was “anxious” about the timeline of a compensation scheme for victims of the scandal.
In 2019, a group of 555 subpostmasters successfully challenged the Post Office over the Horizon system in the High Court. A public inquiry was established in September 2020 to examine the failings which led to the scandal.
