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MYSTERIOUS: Ex uk post office boss sorry over convictions scandal - What They Never Told You

Former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells is giving evidence in a scandal that was made into a TV drama. (Credit: AFP)

The former boss of Britain's Post Office on Wednesday apologised to the hundreds of staff who were wrongly prosecuted because of faulty computer software, in one of the country's worst miscarriages of justice.

More than 700 subpostmasters running small local post offices received criminal convictions between 1999 and 2015 after the faulty Horizon accounting software made it appear that money had gone missing from their branches.

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