{"id":77222,"date":"2025-07-09T07:58:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77222"},"modified":"2025-07-09T07:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:58:54","slug":"post-office-scandal-may-have-led-to-more-than-13-suicides-inquiry-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/09\/post-office-scandal-may-have-led-to-more-than-13-suicides-inquiry-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Office scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides, inquiry finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1HmPhu.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"About 1,000 post office operators were prosecuted by the Post Office between 1999 and 2015 because of the faulty Horizon IT system. Photograph: Vuk Valcic\/Zuma Press Wire\/Rex\/Shutterstock\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 13 people may have killed themselves as a result of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/post-office-horizon-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">the Post Office Horizon IT scandal<\/a> and it drove at least 59 more to contemplate suicide, according to the first findings from the public inquiry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/post-office-scandal-may-have-led-to-more-than-13-suicides-inquiry-finds\/ar-AA1IbmlQ?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=a8b3a37acb784d559efe8de0e14c2862&amp;ei=17\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than 13 people may have killed themselves as a result of\u00a0the Post Office Horizon IT scandal and it drove at least&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Post-Office-scandal.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77224,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77222\/revisions\/77224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}