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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Julia Kollewe

Post Office Horizon IT scandal: five things we learned from the report

A group of people hold up a banner reading 'SOS, save our sub-postmasters'
A group of those affected by the scandal demonstrating outside the Oval, where Sir Wyn Williams presented the first volume of his report. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Volume one of the final inquiry report from the retired high court judge Sir Wyn Williams, who chaired the hearings into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, lays bare the “disastrous” human impact on the thousands of post office operators wrongly accused of taking money from their branches because faulty software showed a shortfall, many of whom went to prison.

Here are five key findings from the report:

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