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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Alan Cook is now being questioned by Edward Henry KC, who represents Janet Skinner, a sub-postmistress who served a nine-month sentence for false accounting after pleading guilty in 2006. “She’d been jailed on the lie, Mr Cook, that Horizon was infallible,” Mr Henry said. “But you said you had no …
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SIR – I received an NHS letter postmarked February 9 at 12.30pm on February 16. My X-ray appointment was for 3pm. Thankfully I was able to attend. Had the appointment been sooner, it would have been another one missed. Catherine Pepinster (Comment, April 4) is right that Royal Mail holds …
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If you’ve ever rummaged through a box of old postcards at an antiques fair, you might have noticed not only the quaint images from the 1890s or 1900s, but the extraordinary messages on the back: “Dear Cissie, Elsie and I will come for tea today. Will arrive about 4.30. Yours, …
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In January, Fujitsu admitted that staff had known about bugs and errors for years and apologised for its role in the scandal. The company said in January that it would not seek public sector contracts for the next two years as a penance for the Horizon scandal. Fujitsu said the …
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