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Starting in the late 1990s, the Post Office began installing Horizon accounting software, but faults in the software led to shortfalls in branches' accounts. The Post Office demanded sub-postmasters cover the shortfalls, and in many cases wrongfully prosecuted them between 1999 and 2015 for false accounting or theft.

More than 700 Post Office branch managers were potentially wrongly accused of false accounting between 2000 and 2014 due to a computer system called Horizon. Many of the former sub-postmasters had been convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting offences.

' The quality of the accounting data was the serious problem. Across the system Horizon could not get its accounts data to add up.

1999. The Post Office introduces a computer accounting system named Horizon. By 2013 the system was being used by at least 11,500 branches and was processing some six million transactions every day. 2000. In 2000 there were six shortfall convictions that relied on Horizon data.

Starting in the late 1990s, the Post Office began installing Horizon accounting software, but faults in the software led to shortfalls in branches' accounts. The Post Office demanded sub-postmasters cover the shortfalls, and in many cases wrongfully prosecuted them between 1999 and 2015 for false accounting or theft.

An inquiry was launched after more than 700 former Post Office sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted for theft and false accounting over years in one of the most widespread miscarriages of justice in UK history.

Paula Vennells Paula Vennells CBEVennells in 2016Born1959 (age 63–64)NationalityBritishKnown forPost Office scandal

Its evidence came principally from data produced by the flawed Horizon computerised point of sale system. As a result, victims faced criminal convictions, were left financially ruined when debts were pursued by Post Office, and many were ostracised from their families and communities.

Starting in the late 1990s, the Post Office began installing Horizon accounting software, but faults in the software led to shortfalls in branches' accounts. The Post Office demanded sub-postmasters cover the shortfalls, and in many cases wrongfully prosecuted them between 1999 and 2015 for false accounting or theft.

More than 700 Post Office branch managers were potentially wrongly accused of false accounting between 2000 and 2014 due to a computer system called Horizon. Many of the former sub-postmasters had been convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting offences.

' The quality of the accounting data was the serious problem. Across the system Horizon could not get its accounts data to add up.

1999. The Post Office introduces a computer accounting system named Horizon. By 2013 the system was being used by at least 11,500 branches and was processing some six million transactions every day. 2000. In 2000 there were six shortfall convictions that relied on Horizon data.

Starting in the late 1990s, the Post Office began installing Horizon accounting software, but faults in the software led to shortfalls in branches' accounts. The Post Office demanded sub-postmasters cover the shortfalls, and in many cases wrongfully prosecuted them between 1999 and 2015 for false accounting or theft.

An inquiry was launched after more than 700 former Post Office sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted for theft and false accounting over years in one of the most widespread miscarriages of justice in UK history.

Paula Vennells Paula Vennells CBEVennells in 2016Born1959 (age 63–64)NationalityBritishKnown forPost Office scandal

Its evidence came principally from data produced by the flawed Horizon computerised point of sale system. As a result, victims faced criminal convictions, were left financially ruined when debts were pursued by Post Office, and many were ostracised from their families and communities.