Former sub-postmistress Lynette Hutchings, 67, died before receiving full compensation for her wrongful conviction for theft due to the flawed Horizon IT system.
The widow of a wrongly prosecuted Post Office manager has claimed that witnesses to the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal are suffering from “corporate amnesia”.
The admission by Fujitsu’s European boss Paul Patterson that the company was aware of glitches in the Horizon computer system used by sub-postmasters prosecuted for theft and false accounting is an important moment in this lengthy saga.
Fujitsu has a moral obligation to help compensate UK postmasters wrongly convicted because of a bug in its accounting software, its European director said on Tuesday.Patterson told a parliamentary committee that Fujitsu, which assisted the Post Office in prosecutions using flawed data from the software, had a moral obligation to redress the "travesty".
Victims of the Horizon scandal are being prevented from claiming compensation because the Post Office is refusing to return their personal files, it has been claimed.