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The Guardian // Politics

Post Office Horizon IT scandal: five things we learned from the report

Tuesday 8th July 2025, 5:37PM

We look at what volume one of the inquiry report describes as the ‘disastrous’ human impactPost Office scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides, inquiry finds‘We lost so many along the way’: Horizon scandal victims welcome reportVolume one of the final inquiry report from the retired high court judge Sir Wyn Williams, who chaired the hearings into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, lays bare the “disastrous” human impact on the thousands of post office operators wrongly accused of taking money from their branches because faulty software showed a shortfall, many of whom went to prison.Here are five key findings from the report:In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or

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