Ex-Post Office investigator Stephen Bradshaw has denied he and colleagues behaved like “mafia gangsters” towards wrongly accused sub-postmasters.
Mr Bradshaw was involved in the criminal investigation of nine sub-postmasters and was giving evidence to the Post Office inquiry.
He denied intimidating or misleading the sub-postmasters he investigated.
He denied intimidating or misleading the sub-postmasters he investigated.
There were more than 900 convictions linked to the scandal, with only 93 so far being overturned, after a faulty computer system called Horizon made it look like money was missing from accounts.
The government has pledged to bring in a new law to “swiftly exonerate and compensate victims” of the scandal.
Mr Bradshaw – who joined the unit tasked with investigating sub-postmasters in 2000 – was questioned for several hours on Thursday.
Extracts were read out from a statement by Shazia Saddiq, a former sub-postmistress originally from Newcastle, who used to run three Post Offices in the city.
“I have received… intimidating telephone calls from Stephen Bradshaw who began calling me before I knew he worked for the Post Office. He did not identify himself in his calls, he just made demands of me,” the statement read.
Ex-Post Office investigator Stephen Bradshaw has denied he and colleagues behaved like “mafia gangsters” towards wrongly accused sub-postmasters.
He denied intimidating or misleading the sub-postmasters he investigated.
Mr Bradshaw was involved in the criminal investigation of nine sub-postmasters and was giving evidence to the Post Office inquiry.
There were more than 900 convictions linked to the scandal, with only 93 so far being overturned, after a faulty computer system called Horizon made it look like money was missing from accounts.
He denied intimidating or misleading the sub-postmasters he investigated.
He denied intimidating or misleading the sub-postmasters he investigated.
There were more than 900 convictions linked to the scandal, with only 93 so far being overturned, after a faulty computer system called Horizon made it look like money was missing from accounts.
The government has pledged to bring in a new law to “swiftly exonerate and compensate victims” of the scandal.
Mr Bradshaw – who joined the unit tasked with investigating sub-postmasters in 2000 – was questioned for several hours on Thursday.
Extracts were read out from a statement by Shazia Saddiq, a former sub-postmistress originally from Newcastle, who used to run three Post Offices in the city.
“I have received… intimidating telephone calls from Stephen Bradshaw who began calling me before I knew he worked for the Post Office. He did not identify himself in his calls, he just made demands of me,” the statement read.
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