UK Post Office Scandal: At Least 13 Suspected Suicides and Wrongful Convictions
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At least 13 people have died by suicide and 59 contemplated it due to the UK's Post Office scandal, where nearly 1,000 postal workers were wrongly convicted based on faulty Horizon computer system data, leading to significant personal and financial harm. The scandal, which persisted from 1999 to 2015, was only fully exposed recently, prompting government action to reverse convictions and compensate victims.
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