Watch stay: Fujitsu employees give evidence in Post Office Horizon IT inquiry as MPs demand victim compensation

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Watch stay as Fujitsu employees give evidence in the Post Office scandal Horizon IT inquiry on Tursday (18 January).

They will seem earlier than the Commons’ Business and Trade Committee which focuses on offering compensation to victims of the Horizon scandal, which noticed greater than 700 department managers given felony convictions.

The scandal centred on the defective Horizon IT system, made by Fujitsu, which made it seem as although cash was lacking.

Fujitsu Europe director Paul Patterson apologised to subpostmasters wrongly convicted throughout the scandal, wen e appeared earlier than te committee on Tuesday (16 January).

Mr Patterson stated: “To the subpostmasters and their families, Fujitsu would like to apologise for our part in this appalling miscarriage of justice.

“We were involved from the very start. We did have bugs and errors in the system. And we did help the Post Office in their prosecutions of subpostmasters. For that we are truly sorry.”

Rishi Sunak has agreed to quash new laws to exonerate the wrongly convicted Post Office sub-postmasters, and supply these eligible with a £75,000 upfront cost. There are additionally numerous different compensation schemes.