Post Office prosecuted postmasters over missing money despite evidence its own computer system could be to blame, BBC Panorama reveals
The Post Office prosecuted postmasters over missing money despite having evidence its own computer system could be to blame.But a BBC Panorama investigation has revealed managers knew problems with Horizon could make money disappear.
An Ernst and Young audit report, which was sent to Post Office directors, says it"has again identified weaknesses" in the Horizon system. It then became a central issue in a civil court case brought by 550 postmasters in 2017. The Post Office agreed to pay £58m to settle the case last year. Thousands of pages of internal Post Office documents were disclosed in the civil trial and Panorama spent months investigating previously unseen evidence.
The security team tell the legal team they are worried the bug may have"repercussions in any future prosecution cases". "Quite clearly the Post Office had material which they should have disclosed, which they did not, and in my view resulted in the wrongful conviction of Mrs Misra.
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