Between 1999 and 2015, the Post Office, prosecuting 736 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses an average of one a week for accounting errors actually caused by a faulty IT system named Horizon, provided to the Post Office by Fujitsu.
As shocking ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office shed light on the plight of hundreds of sub-postmasters, we take a look at those operating in the background of the catastrophic series of events
Evidence from Horizon, a faulty computer system rolled out by Fujitsu, secured the prosecutions of 700 sub-postmasters between 2000 and 2014, with the Post Office prosecuting them for false accounting, fraud and theft