Post Office Horizon IT scandal |
UK |
Unjustified prosecution and conviction of hundreds of subpostmasters across the UK |
Unaccountability, groupthink, astonishing collective amnesia, widespread incompetence, stupidity. |
Conviction, imprisonment, suicide and bankruptcy of hundreds of perfectly innocent and quite nice people. |
Loss of public honours (CBE). No firings yet: many candidates for defenestration jumped before they could be fired. |
Excoriating public humiliation in front of public enquiry. Increasingly likely some criminal prosecutions may follow.
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