The Post Office has created a new role to bolster its tech leadership team amid an ongoing project to replace the Horizon system supplied by Fujitsu. This comes at a time when the organisation faces tough decisions over the move away from the controversial IT system used in all Post Office branches. Subpostmasters were blamed…
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Current and former Post Office staff, lawyers and civil servants could all be questioned as part of the Metropolitan Police’s national investigation into crimes related to the Post Office Horizon scandal. In an update of its Operation Olympos, Met Police commander Stephen Clayman, who is leading the investigation, said police will “go where the evidence…
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Sheridan Ash, founder and co-CEO of Tech She Can, has become the 13th person to be named Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Woman in UK Tech. Launched in 2012, the Computer Weekly list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech started as a list of 25, expanding to 50 in 2015, and now seeing…
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There can be few – if any – initiatives more important to the future of the Post Office than the replacement of the controversial Horizon IT system at the heart of the scandal that led to the UK’s most widespread miscarriage of justice. And yet recent revelations at the public inquiry into the scandal show…
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Fujitsu’s UK public sector business has lost over £50m in sales this year as a result of the Horizon supplier’s involvement in the Post Office scandal. Speaking during a company conference call, Dave Riley, head of public sector at the Japanese-owned IT giant, told staff that media coverage of the scandal has cost Fujitsu’s UK…
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Embattled Post Office chief executive Nick Read is leaving the troubled organisation in March 2025. He will be replaced on an interim basis by chief operating officer Neil Brocklehurst. Victims of the Post Office scandal have consistently called for Read’s departure following years of delays in paying compensation and revelations this year that he threatened…
A new redress scheme for victims of the Post Office scandal that was launched by the Labour government in July has completed its first £600,000 payment to a former subpostmaster – just over one month after her application was submitted. The payment is significant because the new plan, the Horizon Convictions Redress Scheme, is run…
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The statutory public inquiry into the Post Office scandal went relatively unnoticed for almost two years, but in that time, those au fait with the case have been shocked on an almost daily basis. The airing of ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office drama and accompanying documentary in January 2024, eventually put the scandal…
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The Post Office has apologised once again to subpostmasters after it was confirmed that a text message intended to warn branch managers of a problem preventing access to the Horizon IT system was never sent. As reported by Computer Weekly earlier this week, about 3,000 Post Office branch counters were unable do business when they…
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A former Post Office investigator who deleted information from an expert IT witness statement during the wrongful prosecution of a subpostmaster faces being investigated by his current employer, the Metropolitan Police, as part of its Post Office scandal probe. Last week, the Post Office scandal public inquiry was shown evidence for the second time that …
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