Boothtown Post Office, Boothtown, Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire. Hundreds of people wrongly convicted in the Post Office scandal are set to have their names cleared under new legislation planned by the government. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted due to faulty software. Incorrect information provided by a computer system called Horizon, developed by Japanese firm Fujitsu, meant that sub-postmasters and postmistresses were prosecuted for stealing money. Many of those convicted went to prison for false accounting and theft.

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