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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Joanna Partridge

Wrongly convicted Post Office workers say former bosses should face jail

Noel Thomas, one of the Post Office workers whose convictions were quashed in April 2021
Noel Thomas, a former Post Office worker, outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London after his conviction was quashed in 2021. Photograph: Mark Thomas/Rex/Shutterstock

Former Post Office workers who were among those wrongfully convicted for theft, fraud and false accounting have called for the company’s former management to go to jail for their part in the long-running scandal.

More than 700 Post Office operators were prosecuted between 2000 and 2014, based on evidence from the Horizon IT system, which was installed and maintained by Fujitsu.

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