Post Office ‘has blood on its hands’ as Horizon scandal report finds at least THIRTEEN people may have taken their own lives – while another FIFTY NINE either attempted suicide or considered it, damning inquiry reveals

Last night, the campaigns claimed that at least 13 people committed suicide by the Ufuk IT scandal, the post office was ‘blood in their hands’.

Britain’s worst of the worst of the destructive human influence, a damn investigation report published yesterday was left naked.

In the report, at least 59 other victims tried to take their own lives as they despaired.

Many more innocent people were imprisoned, excluded or turned into drugs or drugs after being accused of theft.

However, the investigation, the post office ‘maintain the fiction’ said, the wrong Ufuk accounting system is correct and said that the pain extended.

Approximately 1,000 branch managers were prosecuted, 236 of them went to jail, and thousands of more people were incorrectly accused of deficiencies in Tills caused by the faulty Ufuk accounting system made by Fujitsu.

The scandal was implemented last year with a post office against the award -winning ITV drama Mr. Bates.

Yesterday, 10,000 victims appeared to seek financial compensation.

Former Lower Postmaster Sir Alan Bates Bates

The IT investigation, which began in 2022 after the post office Horizon, looked at the ‘disaster human effect’ of the 162 -page report of President Sir Wyn Williams.

A second episode – who will be accused – may not go out until next year.

Sir Wyn, the scale of the misery of the sub -officials ‘exaggeration’ is difficult, he said. Works, houses, marriages and families “ thousands of people suffered, ” he said.

Around 350 accused died without justice. ‘At least 59 who thinks of suicide … And that connects it to its experiences with the horizon and/or post office’ he said.

A mail manager said the investigation: ‘The effect on me … cannot be measured. The mental stress was so great that I had a mental deterioration and I returned to alcohol when I sank even more depression.

‘I attempted suicide several times and has been accepted twice to a mental health institution.’

57 -year -old Tracey Merritt, accused of stealing £ 13,500 from his two branches in Dorset, said: ‘The post office has blood.

‘They knew that the computer system was not appropriate, and when we complained, they did their best to close us.’

59 -year -old Martin Griffiths suspected of stealing money from a post office in Ellesmere Port, and in 2013, he received his own life.

The mother of the two was forced to put their own money in Tills to create a ‘deficiency’.

He said it was not difficult for at least 13 people to find their own life on the scandal. He accepted: ‘I approached the plug.’

Hampshire, Southern Warnborough branch of £ 36,000 in the wrong way to prosecute the former postmistress Jo Hamilton, ‘shows us the horror scale they released’ he said.

Sir Wyn was sentenced to ‘postmaster and others’ prosecution, conviction and punishment trauma and some long prison for some.

‘I heard people tragically, people who were said to be directed to take their lives.’

He described four different compensation plans as a ‘curved process’ and asked the government to respond to the report within three months. 19 The proposal includes:

• The government and the post office should define ‘complete and fair’ compensation. Victims should receive damage at the top end of their receivables from a judge in the civil court.

• Free legal advice for victims.

• Compensation for victims’ close family members.

• A new organization to control compensation for people who are justified by public institutions.

• The post office, government and Fujitsu should offer ‘restorative justice’ to victims.

37 -year -old formerly sent Chris Head said: ‘We knew there were suicides, but the resulting number shocked everyone.

‘If he had listened to what people said in the early days, this would not happen.’

For eight years, he paid his own money to £ 88,000 ‘deficiencies at his branch near Newcastle. He destroyed his life and left him 300,000 £ worse for him.

Former 66 -year -old Postal Manager Robert Thomson tried to end his life through allegations that he stole £ 5,000 from his branch in Cambus in Scotland.

He said: ‘More than this money. I’ve been fighting for 21 years and I will never take that time back. ‘

The post office apologized for a ‘shameful period in our history’ and said that the report would take into account the suggestions.

Case Study 1

Fiona received an overdose in a homeless hostel after looking at her sons

Innocent Postmistress Fiona McGowan died of an overdose in 2009 after the post office said he played £ 30,000 from his branch in Edinburgh.

The 47 -year -old lady McDowan was thrown by the local community and died in a homeless hostel who lost her family, home and work.

He left two young sons and a girl, convinced that he would go to jail when he was overdose to alcohol and antidepressants.

His daughter Gemma McDowan said last year: ‘My mother lost everything – her life, her children, her health, and her life because of her post office.

The lives of me and my brothers and sisters were ruined and we carried the weight with him until my mother died. It was a dark cloud hanging on it.

Innocent Postmistress Fiona McGowan died of an overdose in 2009 after the post office said that he stole £ 30,000 from his branch in Edinburgh

‘He died believing that he would go to jail.’ ‘

When social workers took him and his brother in terms of Fiona, he was only ten years old, Mrs McGowan’s son Daryl added: ‘Before that, my mother is very going and full of life. He always made makeup. But he changed him. ‘

Case Study 2

A successful businessman ended his life after the post office Raid

Hours after the researchers raided the branch of a postponement of a post office of a mail manager who killed himself last night, said how the post office destroyed their lives.

Gowri Jayakanthan said that his deceased husband Jayakanthan Sivasubramaniam was not given the opportunity to defend himself against the allegations that he was responsible for the loss of £ 179,000 at his 35-year-old branch in Putney in South-West London in 2005.

At that time, only one and three years of age left to raise his children Jayakanthan added: ‘My poor husband was not given the opportunity to give the story. It had many social, cultural and financial influences in my life.

‘The post office continued to push these claims even if they knew that the system was wrong.

Jayakanthan Sivasubramaniam took his own life after being investigated by the post office.

“ We have made a lot of investigations about our case.

At that time, we were greatly impressed – friends and relatives insulated us.

‘I had to be the winner of the main bread after my husband died.’

He said that he was ‘very surprised’ to see that at least 13 people killed themselves in similar conditions: ‘He gave a terrible harm to the mental health of people.’

He asked if he felt painful about the post office, he said: ‘Of course I am doing it. Yes.’

Before her husband had three grocery stores before joining the post office, she was a successful businessman and won one son to put it in a private school.

However, the post office claimed that the cash machine and safely lost £ 179,000. The two post office inspector raided the store, took a file and locked the couple hours before they bought their own life.

Ms. Jayakanthan is still waiting to get a last compensation agreement.

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