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

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

They appeared before the Commons’ Business and Trade Committee which focuses on providing compensation to victims of the Horizon 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 subpostmasters wrongly convicted during the scandal, wen he appeared before the committee on Tuesday (16 January).

Mr Patterson said: “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 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.