Post Office: MPs to hold inquiry into compensation ‘unfinished business’ Politics MPs are set to launch an inquiry into the “unfinished business” of financial redress for victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal. The business and trade committee will hold a short probe focused on “fast and fair redress” for those affected by what has been dubbed the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history. It [...]
Post Office boss Nick Read to step down next year as successor named Business Post Office chief executive Nick Read will step down from the role in March next year, the company has announced. Neil Brocklehurst, the current interim chief operating officer, is expected to replace Read, who temporarily stepped back from the role in July to give his “entire attention” to the Horizon scandal inquiry. At the time, [...]
Campaigner Alan Bates proposes private prosecutions over Post Office IT scandal Post Office Former subpostmaster and campaigner Alan Bates has said he will pursue private prosecutions against those responsible for the Horizon IT scandal if the inquiry does not pass a file to prosecuting authorities. The inquiry resumed this week with Mr Bates giving evidence and on Friday he told the Times he would be willing to crowdfund [...]
Post Office scandal: Alan Bates warned Ed Davey in 2010 about ‘thugs in suits’, inquiry told April 9, 2024 The Post Office has disclosed more than 73,000 documents to the inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal in a “highly disruptive” disclosure, the inquiry heard.