Post Office bosses ‘maintained the fiction’ the Horizon system was accurate but should have known it was faulty, the report found

The children of wrongly-accused subpostmasters faced trauma and hardship but are now being promised compensation.

Thirteen people may have taken their own lives and others were bankrupted or became seriously ill as a result of Britain's Post Office scandal, a public inquiry found on Tuesday, laying bare the toll of one of the country's worst miscarriages of justice.