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For anyone wondering at the context here, more than 900 subpostmasters in the UK (that is, contracted franchisees running small branch post offices) were accused and convicted of supposedly embezzling money, based entirely on faulty software. See the Wikipedia post for more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

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Importantly, not just accused but convicted and imprisoned based on faulty software.

Several also comitted suicide, and quite a few were divorced. Also, British law apparently has no mechanism for holding anyone responsible.

I'm not even sure how you'd begin to make restitutions for this tbh.

The people responsible are the kind of people who end up running a large broadcaster (ITV) or being appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). The law does not apply to that class.

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