By Julia Banim When a new computer accounting system was rolled out across post offices up and down the country at the turn of the millennium, workers had hoped it would make their lives easier. Instead, glitches in the supposedly ‘robust’ Horizon software ended up dragging hundreds of sub-postmasters and sub-post-mistresses into a nightmare that many are still living through to this day. As dramatised in the ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office, the system wrongly detected financial shortfalls in various branches. The blame fell squarely on the shoulders of innocent sub-postmasters, many of …
