Another top executive is leaving the Post Office as the embattled business prepares for the final stage of the Horizon inquiry. Staff were told on Wednesday that Martin Roberts, group chief retail officer at the taxpayer-owned organisation, will leave on Aug 2. He has been in post since Feb 2022 …
Read More »Doctors scared to blow whistle on patient care
Growing numbers of doctors have said they would not blow the whistle about patient safety concerns for fear of retribution, a survey has found. The British Medical Association (BMA) surveyed doctors in 2018 and again in 2024, with a rising proportion saying they would not feel confident raising concerns about …
Read More »Lawyers who worked for Royal Mail Group amid Horizon scandal under investigation
More than 20 investigations are ongoing into solicitors and law firms that worked for the Post Office in cases linked to the Horizon IT scandal, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has said. The SRA is investigating the strategy and conduct used by Post Office or Royal Mail Group solicitors during …
Read More »Post Office scandal: 20-plus law firms and solicitors under investigation
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Read More »Ex-Royal Mail head Moya Greene told disgraced Post Office chief Paula Vennells: ‘I think you knew’
Ms Vennells joined the Post Office in 2007 as group network director before later progressing to managing director and eventually chief executive in 2012, a role she left in 2019 after handing in her resignation in the latter months of 2018. However, she told the inquiry that she did not …
Read More »Paula Vennells cries as she admits ‘mistakes’
Ms Vennells has told the inquiry how she trusted information from the “highest lawyer in the organisation” but accepted it was “clearly completely inaccurate”. The inquiry was shown minutes from a meeting attended by Ms Vennells and Susan Crichton, then the Post Office’s most senior in-house lawyer. The document stated …
Read More »Post Office lawyer does not ‘recall seeing’ report that might have stopped wrongful conviction
Mr Beer pressed Mr Singh further on the report, saying: “All of this: ‘If I received it, if I read it’ – it’s a big fat lie, isn’t it? And you know it, Mr Singh.” Responding, Mr Singh said: “Sir, I didn’t come here to lie, I’m at an age …
Read More »Post Office bosses planned to raid sub-postmasters’ pensions, inquiry hears
Post Office bosses plotted to raid convicted sub-postmasters’ pensions to make up account shortfalls, an inquiry heard. David Miller, the Post Office’s former chief operating officer, denied being the architect of what he described as a “horrendous” plan to target the pensions of sub-postmasters accused of theft. The Post Office …
Read More »Ex-chief executive set to give evidence on Horizon
Sir Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, has apologised for not meeting Alan Bates in 2010 when the sub-postmasters campaigner wrote to him for the first time about the Horizon scandal. Sir Ed, who was the Post Office minister at the time, was advised to meet Mr Bates …
Read More »Former Post Office chief and MD denies oversight of wrongful prosecutions
THE Post Office’s former chief executive and managing director both claimed they did not remember having oversight of the wrongful prosecution of subpostmasters at the Horizon scandal inquiry today. More than 700 subpostmasters were prosecuted by the Post Office and handed criminal convictions between 1999 and 2015 as Fujitsu’s faulty Horizon system made it …
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