Post Office admits computer system at centre of sub-postmaster prosecutions had bugs

Charlee Gothard
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However PO says probe into Horizon software justifies its 'confidence in the overall system'

The Post Office has admitted that a computer system at the centre of a legal dispute with several of its sub-postmasters suffered software bugs. Some of the Post Office's 11,500 sub-postmasters ...

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