Around 13 postmasters ‘may have taken own life’ amid Horizon scandal

More than 900 subpostmasters were wrongfully prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 in what has been dubbed the worst miscarriage of justice in British legal history.

A long-awaited independent inquiry has identified at least 13 postmasters who may have taken their own lives in the wake of the Post Office Horizon scandal.

The Horizon IT inquiry’s final report found 59 people who contemplated suicide attributable to their experiences with Horizon and/or the Post Office.

The probe’s chairman, retired judge Sir Wyn Williams, said he couldn’t make a definitive finding that there was a causal connection between the 13 people who died and Horizon, but he said he did not rule that out as a “real possibility”.

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