Post Office staff implicated in Horizon scandal may still be 'operating at heart' of business

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Hundreds of sub postmasters were wrongfully convicted due to faulty Horizon computer software used by the Post Office between 1999 and 2015.

Post Office employees 'implicated' in the Horizon scandal may 'still be operating at the heart' of the business, the inquiry into it has heard. Chief executive Nick Read was on Thursday questioned about issues around staff who played a part in wrongful prosecutions and investigations of sub postmasters before 2015.

He describes a 'collective decision' not to 'simply dismiss anyone who was, for instance, an investigator at the time but against whom there was no direct evidence of wrongdoing, rather to transfer them to other departments'. He asserts that unless wrongdoing can be proven, the Post Office 'cannot simply remove existing staff because they were in post when the miscarriages of justice were taking place'.

 

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