The Post Office scandal was arguably one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in recent British history. Over ten years, seven hundred subpostmasters in the UK were wrongfully prosecuted and even jailed for fraud, after massive amounts of money went missing from the accounts of the Post Office branches they ran.
They were innocent. The real problem: the Post Office's new electronic accounting system Horizon, which was introduced in 1999 and whose glitches ended up causing discrepancies totalling thousands of pounds. Nevertheless, the Post Office took the decision to prosecute, suing and sacking their employees for the money they said was owed.
