IT that led to innocent Post Office staff jailed is... renewed for £21m

Bosses’ shock deal for hated Horizon system

- TOM PARRY

THE disastrous computer system that caused dozens of postmasters to be wrongly jailed has been extended for use by the Post Office.

Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has been given a new deal worth at least £21million, and possibly twice that, for its Horizon accounting software.

The sum is nearly double what postmasters have seen of the settlement for having their lives ruined by the bug-ridden system.

It has been blamed for innocent postmasters being jailed, made bankrupt or having reputations destroyed after flawed convictions including theft, fraud, and false accounting. The system created shortfalls in branch accounts.