Private Eye have been covering it for years, since way before the PO ever acknowledged there may be a problem. The PO denied for many years that the system could be faulty then as I recall one of the system engineers said it was flawed.
The PO tried to wriggle out of it on many occasions but in general the courts didn't support them.
Even at a very late stage the PO tried to strike out the whole action by claiming the judge was biased, or something like that.
Here is the Eye's special on it, with lots of detail.
www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/justice-lost-in-the-post.pdf
EDIT: From Paula Vennells wikipedia page
"Paula Anne Vennells, CBE (born 1959), is a British businesswoman and Anglican priest. She was chief executive officer (CEO) of the Post Office Limited from 2012 to 2019. Under her leadership, the Post Office prosecuted hundreds of subpostmasters for fraud, despite knowing that the financial discrepancies were actually arising from computer errors for which her own company was responsible."
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