The Post Office’s former CEO is accused of being aware of problems with the Horizon IT system while sub-postmasters were prosecuted. (Alamy) Secret recordings provide the ‘final evidence’ that former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells was aware of problems with the Horizon IT system at the same time staff were being prosecuted, a former activist … 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
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
Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells will hand back her CBE – TOM STOCKHILL Disgraced former Post Office boss Paula Vennells has bowed to pressure to hand back her CBE amid anger over her role in the Horizon IT scandal. She announced she will forfeit the honor “with immediate effect” after Rishi Sunak intervened and … Read more