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Kieran Guilbert

UK Post Office scandal may have led to at least 13 suicides, inquiry finds

At least 13 people are believed to have killed themselves because of Britain's Post Office scandal, in which almost 1,000 postal workers were wrongly prosecuted or convicted of criminal wrongdoing due to a faulty IT system, a public inquiry revealed on Tuesday.

Another 59 people contemplated suicide over the scandal, one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British history, according to the first findings from the inquiry.

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