The shadow minister recently claimed he could not recall the scandal being raised with him during that time.
However, he told the BBC that he had gone back and checked, admitting: “It did cross my desk.”
However, he told the BBC that he had gone back and checked, admitting: “It did cross my desk.”
Hundreds of sub-postmasters and postmistresses were prosecuted by the Post Office based on Fujitsu’s Horizon IT system – first installed in 1999 – which made it appear that money was missing from branches.
It is widely regarded as one of biggest miscarriages of justice in British legal history.
A number of former ministers with responsibility for the Post Office have faced questions about what they knew and when about the prosecution of branch managers based on faulty evidence from the computer system. The Post Office, which is owned by the government, denied for years that Horizon was at fault.
Mr McFadden is due to give evidence to a public inquiry into the Post Office scandal later this year.
However, he told the BBC that he had gone back and checked, admitting: “It did cross my desk.”
The shadow minister recently claimed he could not recall the scandal being raised with him during that time.
Hundreds of sub-postmasters and postmistresses were prosecuted by the Post Office based on Fujitsu’s Horizon IT system – first installed in 1999 – which made it appear that money was missing from branches.
However, he told the BBC that he had gone back and checked, admitting: “It did cross my desk.”
However, he told the BBC that he had gone back and checked, admitting: “It did cross my desk.”
Hundreds of sub-postmasters and postmistresses were prosecuted by the Post Office based on Fujitsu’s Horizon IT system – first installed in 1999 – which made it appear that money was missing from branches.
It is widely regarded as one of biggest miscarriages of justice in British legal history.
A number of former ministers with responsibility for the Post Office have faced questions about what they knew and when about the prosecution of branch managers based on faulty evidence from the computer system. The Post Office, which is owned by the government, denied for years that Horizon was at fault.
Mr McFadden is due to give evidence to a public inquiry into the Post Office scandal later this year.
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