An independent forensic accountant appointed to investigate the Horizon system has told an inquest that former Post Office boss Paula Vennells “frequently and consistently” tried to distance herself from investigating miscarriages of justice. Ian Henderson, one of two forensic accounts at Second Sight paid by the Post Office (POL) to examine Horizon-related cases in 2012,… Read More »
A campaigner and former sub-postmaster has called on former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells to tell the truth as the Horizon IT investigation “heads into a corner from which there is no way out”. Jo Hamilton was accused of falsely stealing £36,000 from the Post Office branch she ran in South Warnborough, Hampshire. To… Read More »
Former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells was accused of knowing about problems with the Horizon IT system as sub-postmasters were prosecuted. (Alamy) A long-time campaigner on the issue has claimed secret recordings provide “conclusive evidence” that former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells had knowledge of problems with the Horizon IT system at the… Read More »
The boss of the post office has written to ministers saying he would stand by the prosecution of more than 350 deputy postmasters convicted in the Horizon scandal. Chief executive Nick Read sent the letter to Justice Secretary Alex Chalk last month saying the Post Office would “oppose” appeals against at least 369 prosecutions. The… Read More »
Sir Geoff Mulgan photographed at his home in central London for The Telegraph on 24 January 2024 – Heathcliff O’Malley For hundreds of victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, reading a recently unearthed 1998 memo must have been almost too painful. Then-Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair had been warned that Horizon was “flawed”… Read More »
Post Office general manager Nick Read was questioned by the Business and Trade Committee. (Alamy) Bosses of the Post Office and Fujitsu faced a tough set of questions on Tuesday as they appeared before MPs to explain their companies’ role in the Horizon scandal. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 700 postmasters and assistant postmasters… Read More »
Britain’s relationship with Japan was one of a number of factors taken into account when Tony Blair decided to go ahead with Horizon, filmed in 1997 – Thomas Imo/Photothek According to information disclosed by The Telegraph, the Foreign Office warned Sir Tony Blair that canceling the Horizon plan would damage relations with Japan. The former… Read More »
Tracey Merritt ran two branches in Dorset and was accused of falsely taking £13,500 – DALE CHERRY Post Office inspectors allegedly warned an innocent deputy postmaster “not to have contact” with his own daughter for 18 months, the Telegraph newspaper has revealed. Tracey Merritt has told how her family was left “torn apart” by an… Read More »
Garbutt, 57, has spent the last 12 years in prison for the murder of his wife Diana, 40, at their home above the Post Office they ran together in Melsonby, North Yorkshire – North Yorkshire Police/PA Robin Garbutt is either a cold-blooded murderer, rightfully languishing in prison for beating his wife to death and then… Read More »