The Post Office prosecuted over 700 subpostmasters for theft and false accounting despite knowing the software had "bugs, errors, and defects".
Former Prime Minister Theresa May published The Abuse of Power in 2023, which used the Post Office scandal as a primary example of institutional failure and injustice. Core Elements of the Scandal Office Scandal – 2023
While the underlying events began in the late 1990s, 2023 was a pivotal year for accountability and public awareness: The Post Office prosecuted over 700 subpostmasters for
In September 2023, the UK Government announced that subpostmasters who had their wrongful convictions overturned would be offered £600,000 each in compensation. imprisonment (some while pregnant)
The scandal resulted in hundreds of wrongful convictions, bankruptcies, imprisonment (some while pregnant), and at least 13 linked suicides .