Former sub-postmasters and politicians have called for the Post Office to face a police investigation after BBC News revealed the company knew of flaws in its Horizon IT system.
A document shows bosses and lawyers knew of issues in 2017, but kept arguing sub-postmasters were to blame.
MP Kevan Jones said “the police need to start looking at this” specific point raised in the BBC investigation.
MP Kevan Jones said “the police need to start looking at this” specific point raised in the BBC investigation.
A Metropolitan Police investigation into the Post Office scandal has been under way since January 2020, but these latest revelations have prompted the calls for police to focus specifically on the BBC report’s findings as well.
Asked if the Met would take the fresh evidence into account a spokesperson said: “Well, we’ve got an inquiry going on – we’re not going to get into the specifics of the inquiry”.
More than 900 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 due to supposed losses flagged by the faulty Horizon IT system used in its branches.
Between 2018 and 2019, the Post Office was taken to court by 555 sub-postmasters led by Alan Bates, who successfully argued they had been wrongly prosecuted.
An internal draft report obtained by the BBC reveals the Post Office knew in 2017 that the Horizon programme could be flawed.
Former sub-postmasters and politicians have called for the Post Office to face a police investigation after BBC News revealed the company knew of flaws in its Horizon IT system.
MP Kevan Jones said “the police need to start looking at this” specific point raised in the BBC investigation.
A document shows bosses and lawyers knew of issues in 2017, but kept arguing sub-postmasters were to blame.
A Metropolitan Police investigation into the Post Office scandal has been under way since January 2020, but these latest revelations have prompted the calls for police to focus specifically on the BBC report’s findings as well.
MP Kevan Jones said “the police need to start looking at this” specific point raised in the BBC investigation.
MP Kevan Jones said “the police need to start looking at this” specific point raised in the BBC investigation.
A Metropolitan Police investigation into the Post Office scandal has been under way since January 2020, but these latest revelations have prompted the calls for police to focus specifically on the BBC report’s findings as well.
Asked if the Met would take the fresh evidence into account a spokesperson said: “Well, we’ve got an inquiry going on – we’re not going to get into the specifics of the inquiry”.
More than 900 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 due to supposed losses flagged by the faulty Horizon IT system used in its branches.
Between 2018 and 2019, the Post Office was taken to court by 555 sub-postmasters led by Alan Bates, who successfully argued they had been wrongly prosecuted.
An internal draft report obtained by the BBC reveals the Post Office knew in 2017 that the Horizon programme could be flawed.
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