A new document - a secret contract with Fujitsu - blows open the Post Office scandal which saw hundreds of innocent post masters prosecuted.
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The Horizon IT scandal saw men and women who'd run Post Offices up and down the country persecuted - and many prosecuted - for false accounting and theft.
They'd always said they were innocent - that the Horizon computer system was faulty, that the accounts must have been altered.
The Post Office maintained for decades both things were untrue. Tonight, we reveal the document that shows the postmasters were right, and the Post Office and Fujitsu knew all about it.
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