Around 1,000 branch managers were prosecuted, 236 went to jail, and thousands more were wrongly accused over shortfalls in their tills caused by the faulty Horizon system.

Commander Stephen Clayman said the inquiry is “hugely complex”, with eight million documents and counting needing to be forensically reviewed

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