Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful convictions

The inquiry will look at whether the Post Office knew about about faults in the IT system and will also ask how Post Office staff shouldered the blame. Ahead of the inquiry, Harjinder Butoy, who ran the post office in the Nottinghamshire market town of Sutton-in-Ashfield along with his wife, said he wanted to see "Someone on the other side to be charged and jailed like I was". Thousands of others Post Office branch managers lost huge sums of money as they tried to make up mysterious shortfalls at their shops, which the Post Office is only now beginning to refund. The Post Office has said it is "Sincerely sorry" for the impact of the Horizon scandal, adding it is "In no doubt about the human cost." It said the inquiry will enable "Many of those who were most deeply affected by Post Office's past failings to voice their experiences and their testimonies must and will ensure all lessons are learned so that such events can never happen again".

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