'We are truly sorry': Fujitsu chief apologises for Post Office scandal

Fujitsu, the company responsible for a faulty IT system leading to wrongful convictions of UK Post Office managers, has apologised for its role and expressed willingness to compensate those affected.

Paul Patterson is the Europe director of Japan's Fujitsu Source: AAP / TOLGA AKMEN/EPA

Between 2000 and 2014, around 900 postal workers were wrongly convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting, with some going to prison and others forced into bankruptcy due to the faulty accounting software.

The company behind the faulty IT system that led to the wrongful conviction of hundreds of managers of Post Office branches up and down the UK apologised for its role in the country's biggest ever miscarriage of justice.

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