Post Office lawyer 'takes no pride' in working for company following scandal

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Rodric Williams was quizzed about claims that he 'relied on a liar and a perjurer to convict innocent people'.

has told the Horizon IT inquiry he "takes no pride, comfort or confidence" in having worked for the organisation.

Mr Williams told the probe he was "truly sorry" for being associated with the "greatest miscarriage of justice we've seen".Post Office executive warned of wrongful conviction six years before man cleared Questioned on his views on the wrongful conviction of Mrs Misra, Mr Williams told the inquiry: "I take no pride, comfort or confidence in having worked for an employer that has engaged in conducting the greatest miscarriage of justice that we've seen, or however it has been described.

Chairman Sir Wyn Williams interjected: "I think the point, Mr Williams, is at a moment in time, namely 2014, when on any sensible reading of Mr Clarke's advice from July 2013, there was a problem about Mr Jenkins's evidence, the Post Office and you personally appeared to still be asserting to the world that the conviction was safe, amongst other things, because expert evidence had been called and the jury, by inference, must have accepted it.

Mr Beer later asked: "What steps did you take to ensure that it was investigated in any way whatsoever?" Mr Beer continued: "Would you have been concerned if you found out that it was said to be the head of security that had given an instruction to shred documents?"The Post Office has come under fire since the broadcast of ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which put the Horizon scandal under the spotlight.

 

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