More than 30 sub-postmasters from Norfolk were wrongly accused of stealing money from the Post Office as part of the Horizon scandal, it has been revealed.
But of Norfolk's 33 victims of the scandal, one is still yet to receive any compensation from the Post Office.
It has become known as one of the most widespread miscarriages of justice in the country's history.
Thousands of sub-postmasters across the UK were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting by the Post Office based on errors in its Fujitsu Horizon IT system.
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The software made it appear that money was missing from Post Office branches, which led to more than 700 sub-postmasters being prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 despite protesting their innocence.
The ongoing Horizon inquiry has now revealed that Fujitsu staff knew about various bugs, errors and defects in its software from as early as 1999 – when the rollout of the system had only just begun.
North Norfolk MP Duncan Baker, who previously worked as a sub-postmaster in Aylsham and Holt, has said "the mechanisms to exonerate and compensate victims has got to happen faster".
"We have got to make sure that every single affected individual comes forward and is compensated as quickly as possible," Mr Baker said.
"I have asked specifically to be put on the Post Office Horizon System Compensation Bill committee because I want to do everything I possibly can to help these victims as fast as I can.
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"Fujitsu must be held accountable. They must have known their system didn't work properly and for them to go into and change sub-postmasters' Horizon records without them knowing is absolutely unforgivable.
"How do we not know that Fujitsu staff were altering records to try to make up for the fact that the computer system didn't work properly?
"They must be made to contribute compensation towards the victims rather than it all be taxpayers' money."
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