Post Office's Horizon Data Use

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Post Office asked to use Horizon IT data to support criminal case this year, inquiry hears

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The Post Office attempted to use Horizon IT data to support a criminal case against a sub-post office owner earlier this year .

Hundreds of post office operators were wrongfully prosecuted for theft, fraud and false accounting because of bugs in the system.

A chain of email correspondence between the Post Office and the Horizon developer, Fujitsu , was shown at the public inquiry into the scandal on Tuesday .

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