The penultimate phases of the inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal, Britain’s biggest miscarriage of justice, started on April 9 and concluded last week. So far the three-year examination into the biggest miscarriage of justice in the UK has taken evidence from 267 oral witnesses, received 496 witness statements and reviewed 250,000 documents totalling two million pages. The final phase begins next month.
By the end of 1998 hundreds of millions of pounds had been wasted trying to get the Fujitsu-designed Post Office Horizon IT system working. The inquiry was told that Michio Naruto, global vice-chairman of Fujitsu, called the British ambassador to Japan to tell him that cancelling the Horizon project would have “serious repercussions” including the collapse of Fujitsu UK. By April