Hundreds of employees were wrongly convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting because of a faulty computer system.

Thirteen people may have taken their own lives and others were bankrupted or became seriously ill as a result of Britain's Post Office scandal, a public inquiry found on Tuesday, laying bare the toll of one of the country's worst miscarriages of justice.

The children of wrongly-accused subpostmasters faced trauma and hardship but are now being promised compensation.