Hundreds of employees were wrongly convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting because of a faulty computer system.

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.

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