Why the Post Office paid £600m to stay shackled to the faulty Horizon system

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Not owning crucial code has meant it has been unable to replace the system that led to a scandal.

But Mike Young, chief operations officer at the Post Office between October 2010 and April 2012, told the inquiry that Fujitsu management said to him "the code is ours.

Documents released by the Post Office Inquiry show the "IPR issue" was often discussed by top-level Post Office executives."There is a risk that we may be unable to agree an IP license with Fujitsu on reasonable terms", said an agenda for a Post Office board meeting in July 2013 - while other documents describe concerns over costs.