What is Britain's Post Office scandal?
Britain's biggest miscarriages of justice, the wrongful conviction of hundreds of Post Office workers due to faulty software, has exploded into the public domain following a TV drama, sparking demands for justice.
In a more than 20-year scandal, some postal workers were sent to prison and others lost their livelihoods and homes.
An independent inquiry as well as a police investigation into the scandal are ongoing, and top business executives and former ministers are in the firing line.
Below is a detailed look at the case:
WHAT IS THE POST OFFICE SCANDAL?
Hundreds of postal workers at the state-owned Post Office were wrongly prosecuted or convicted between 1999 and 2015 for alleged false accounting, theft and fraud, because of a glitchy software system that incorrectly showed money missing from accounts.
Some spent time in jail while others went bankrupt, saw their marriages destroyed and some died before their names were cleared.
Managers at Post Office branches across Britain, called postmasters or postmistresses, are often at the heart of their communities, trusted individuals who handle people's savings and pensions.
The Post Office maintained for years that data from the defective Horizon computer accounting system, developed by Japan's Fujitsu and rolled out in 1999, was reliable, while accusing branch managers of theft.
HOW DID THE SCANDAL UNFOLD?
The issues with Horizon, where the system would incorrectly show shortfalls in the accounts of individual branches, began to be reported to the Post Office from the early 2000s.
Over the next decade, a number of postmasters either found their Post Office contracts terminated, were made bankrupt or
