Provider of faulty computer system apologizes to hundreds affected by UK Post Office scandal

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Fujitsu, the company whose faulty computer accounting system resulted in the wrongful conviction of hundreds of Post Office branch managers across the U.K., apologized to the victims on Tuesday for its role in the country's biggest ever miscarriage of justice and said it was long aware that the software had bugs. Patterson said he had spoken with his bosses in Japan and that Fujitsu knew “from the very start” that the system, known as Horizon, had “bugs and errors,” and that it had helped the Post Office in its prosecutions of branch managers after unexplained losses were found in their accounts. Three years later, the High Court in London ruled that Horizon contained a number of “bugs, errors and defects” and that the Post Office “knew there were serious issues about the reliability” of the system. People are suffering, they’re dying.” Wrongfully convicted former branch manager Jo Hamilton, one of the protagonists in the TV drama, said the compensation procedure was “almost like you’re being retried" and explained that she had been “gaslit” by the Post Office into thinking that it was her own fault that the numbers in the Horizon system did not add up.