Post Office scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides, inquiry finds

First report from Horizon IT hearings lays bare disastrous' human impact as 10,000 people seek compensation

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More than 13 people may have killed themselves as a result of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, while it drove at least 59 more to contemplate suicide, according to the first findings from the public inquiry into what has been labelled the worst miscarriage of justice in UK history.

The 162-page volume one report from Sir Wyn Williams, the retired judge who chaired the hearings, looks at the disastrous human impact" on the more than 1,000 post office operators wrongly accused of taking money from their branches because faulty software showed a shortfall.