She describes herself as an ‘experienced senior HR leader’ and ‘a vibrant, collaborative and committed business leader’, but for those involved in the Horizon Post Office scandal, Angela van den Bogerd is one of the key players in what is described as the greatest miscarriage of justice in British history. Her appearance at the public … Read more
Britain’s relationship with Japan was one of the factors taken into account when Tony Blair, pictured in 1997, decided to go ahead with Horizon – Thomas Imo/Photothek The Foreign Office warned Sir Tony Blair that scrapping the Horizon plan would damage relations with Japan, The Telegraph can reveal. The former Prime Minister ordered officials to … Read more
Tracey Merritt had two branches in Dorset and was wrongly accused of taking £13,500 – DALE CHERRY Post Office investigators are said to have warned an innocent sub-postmistress not to contact her own daughter for 18 months, the Telegraph can reveal. Tracey Merritt has described how her family was ‘torn apart’ by an ‘aggressive’ investigation … Read more
Garbutt, 57, has spent the last 12 years in prison for the murder of wife Diana, 40, in their home above the post office they ran together in Melsonby, North Yorkshire – North Yorkshire Police/PA Robin Garbutt is either a cold-blooded killer, rightly languishing in prison for beating his wife to death and then concocting … Read more
Rob Wilson, who joined the Post Office in 2002 as head of criminal justice, sent an email warning of the ‘consequences’ of investigating the software The Post Office chose not to investigate problems with its Horizon software five years before the witch hunt ended, fearing it would undermine the prosecution, documents show. Between 1999 and … Read more
A Post Office investigator has denied that he and his colleagues “behaved like mafia gangsters” seeking “a reward with the threats and lies” of sub-postmasters. Stephen Bradshaw, a veteran post office worker, has been accused of bullying branch managers while investigating allegations of missing money in accounts. The criminal cases were based on evidence from … Read more