Lady Neville-Rolfe says she first heard reason at Horizon inquiry, not when she was postal ministerBusiness live – latest updatesThe postal minister when the Post Office stopped prosecuting branch owner-operators has said she was never told an important factor behind the decision was that the state-owned body could no longer find an expert witness willing to testify in defence of its Horizon IT system.Lady Neville-Rolfe was speaking to the public inquiry into the hundreds of prosecutions on the basis of flawed data from the accounting software, described by MPs as the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK legal history. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2024-07-23 11:47:21
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I wasn’t told Post Office stopped prosecutions over lack of expert witness, says ex-minister
