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

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

They appeared before the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry which focuses on providing compensation to victims of the scandal, which saw more than 700 branch managers given criminal convictions.

The scandal centered on the faulty Horizon IT system, made by Fujitsu, which made it appear as though money was missing.

Fujitsu Europe director Paul Patterson apologised to sub-postmasters wrongly convicted during the scandal, when he appeared before the inquiry on Tuesday (16 January).

Mr Patterson said: “To the sub-postmasters 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 legislation to exonerate the wrongly convicted Post Office sub-postmasters, and provide those eligible with a £75,000 upfront payment. There are also a number of other compensation schemes.