Recordings proving Post Office management knew subpostmasters’ were not to blame for accounting errors in the Horizon system are broadcast for the first time, as part of an exclusive Channel 4 News report.
Over 900 subpostmasters were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting based on faulty Horizon data – now widely held as one of the largest miscarriages of justice in British history.
Tonight, Lord Arbuthnot MP who drove the charge for justice for the subpostmasters speaks exclusively to the programme. The inquiry was commissioned in 2020 to provide an account of the implementation and failings of the Horizon IT system at the Post Office over its lifetime.The first of two recordings released tonight document a call with the Post Office’s own IT specialist, Simon Baker. This appears to be the moment the independent accountants learn of systemic issues with Post Office accounts being altered overnight.“It’s more than one email.
On the call were Post Office company secretary Alwen Lyons and chief lawyer Susan Crichton, with audio released as part of tonight’s report.“I would say you need to decide when you want her to know about this before the Arbuthnot meeting and if she does know about it before the Arbuthnot meeting you gotta make the decision if she tells him about it.”“This is so close to one of the issues at the heart of the complaint.
Commenting on the role of Post Office management at the time after hearing the tapes he said: “They allowed that lie to continue. They allowed subpostmasters to languish in prison. They permitted further subpostmasters to go to the wall. Paula Vennells lied to parliament in February 2015.”
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