CLEARED, DEAD AND STILL UNPAID A man runs a post office on a Scottish island for 14 years. Then a computer calls him a thief. Courts later decide the computer could not be trusted. Bill never hears the news. He died 11 years earlier. Meet William Quarm, known as Bill. He ran the Paible Post Office and shop in Bayhead, North Uist, for almost 14 years. In 2008 investigators from the @PostOffice arrived to question him. Their accounting system, Horizon, built by Fujitsu, showed around £40,000 missing. Facing jail, Bill pleaded guilty to embezzlement at Lochmaddy Sheriff Court in 2010 and got 150 hours of community service. He was a father of 5. That is the Horizon scandal. Fujitsu's software made money look missing in branches across the UK and hundreds of branch managers were prosecuted. Around 100 were in Scotland, where the Crown Office did the prosecuting using Post Office evidence. Bill died in 2012, aged 69. His widow Anne Quarm says it broke his health, nearly broke hers and they lost everything. In 2023 the Appeal Court in Edinburgh quashed his conviction. Anne brought the appeal for him. In January 2024 former Post Office investigator Raymond Grant told the Horizon IT Inquiry @PostOffInquiry that he still believes Bill stole the money. A court quashed the conviction. Raymond Grant did not get the memo. The government says people with quashed Horizon convictions can claim £600,000. As of 2024, Anne had received nothing. Her MSP @alasdairallan said the couple also got no pension payout after 14 years of service. Everyone has said sorry. Sorry costs nothing, which explains the supply. Anne Quarm was still waiting for the version with a bank transfer.