A public inquiry begins today (February 14th) examining how hundreds of Post Office sub-postmasters and mistresses were wrongly convicted in the Post Office IT scandal.
The Post Office’s rollout of the faulty Horizon IT system meant that more than 700 sub-postmasters were wrongly convicted of false accounting, fraud and theft. The sheer scale of the scandal makes it the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history.
Scores of those convicted have already succeeded in having their convictions overturned. But what exactly happened in the Post Office IT scandal, and what questions will the inquiry into it be asking?
