At least 13 people were thought to have taken their own lives as a result of Britain's Post Office scandal, in which almost 1,000 postal employees were wrongly prosecuted or convicted of criminal wrongdoing because of a faulty computer system,

By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) -Thirteen people may have taken their own lives and others were bankrupted or became seriously ill as a result of Britain's Post Office scandal, a public inquiry found on Tuesday,

Post Office bosses ‘maintained the fiction’ the Horizon system was accurate but should have known it was faulty, the report found