the rac is predicting that records could now be set daily and it thinks retailers are keen to pass on the wholesale increases quickly, and aa said the cost of living crisis had been up yet another notch. this comes as households and businesses are facing various ci’oss pressures. inflation is at a 30 year high and increses to energy bills energy bills on the way. a long awaited public inquiry, into one of britain s biggest miscarriages ofjustice, hasjust begun hearing evidence. more than 700 post office branch managers were wrongly convicted and thousands lost their businesses, when faulty accounting software, made it look as if money had gone missing from their tills, and they d stolen it. here s charlotte gallagher. a moment for celebration, after years of anguish and struggle. jo hamilton, here on the right, is just one of the innocent people whose lives were ruined because of a faulty post office it system.
i ve had a criminal record for 13 years that i didn t deserve, and that impacts on your work, on your finances and everything. my mum and dad aren t here, they weren t here to see my conviction quashed, because they both had strokes and died, which i m convinced was as a result of what happened to me. in total, 706 former sub postmasters were convicted for crimes they didn t commit. slowly, those convictions are being overturned, 72 so far. but thousands more post office staff lost huge amounts of money, so the government will foot the bill for compensation. the it system at the centre of this scandal is called horizon, developed by the software firm, fujitsu. essentially, it couldn t add up properly, so post office managers were accused of stealing sums of money that never existed. lives were ruined, families were torn apart.
the person i am today, it s, it s made me not the person i want to be. i don t want to be that person who is scared of noises, who, you know. it broke my marriage down. it s taken it s toll. no amount of money will ever change what happened. the only thing i can do now is look forward to the next 20 years. i always say to my children, neverjudge a book by its cover. you don t know what somebody s been through. and now i understand that sometimes people are sent to prison for crimes they didn t commit. i still feel very surreal that i ve just done that. i want closure for everybody. people to be compensated, fair and final compensation. we need answers as to who knew what, when and why.
into how a faulty computer system led to the wrongful convictions of hundreds of post office managers. 15 year old russian figure skater, kamila valieva, will be allowed to carry on competing at the winter olympics in beijing, despite failing a drugs test a long awaited public inquiry into one of britain s biggest miscarriages ofjustice has just begun hearing evidence. more than 700 post office branch managers were wrongly convicted and thousands lost their businesses, when faulty accounting software, made it look as if money had gone missing from their tills, and they d stolen it. charlotte gallagher, bbc news. a moment for celebration, after years of anguish and struggle. jo hamilton, here on the right, is just one of the innocent people whose lives were ruined because of a faulty post office it system. her conviction was quashed last year, but now it s time for answers from this public inquiry.
her conviction was quashed last year, but now it s time for answers from this public inquiry. i ve had a criminal record for 13 years that i didn t deserve, and that impacts on your work, on your finances and everything. my mum and dad aren t here, they weren t here to see my conviction quashed, because they both had strokes and died, which i m convinced was as a result of what happened to me. in total, 706 former sub postmasters were convicted for crimes they didn t commit. slowly, those convictions are being overturned, 72 so far. but thousands more post office staff lost huge amounts of money, so the government will foot the bill for compensation. the it system at the centre of this scandal is called horizon, developed by the software firm, fujitsu. essentially, it couldn t add up properly, so post office managers were accused of stealing sums of money that never existed. lives were ruined,