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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sylvia Hui

At least 13 may have killed themselves over UK's Post Office wrongful convictions scandal

Britain Post Office Scandal - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

At least 13 people were thought to have taken their own lives as a result of Britain's Post Office scandal, in which almost 1,000 postal employees were wrongly prosecuted or convicted of criminal wrongdoing because of a faulty computer system, a report said Tuesday.

Another 59 people contemplated suicide over the scandal, one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in U.K. history.

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