The meeting broadcast live in Warwickshire the day before the public inquiry in London resumes. Jon Kay hosts while Sally Nugent is in the BBC Breakfast Studio in Salford. (6AM-930AM, Monday 8-April-2024)
LIVE. Post Office would do 'anything to hide Horizon failures' - Alan Bates
The former sub-postmaster tells the Post Office inquiry he first raised concerns about problems with the software in 2000.
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Post Office Inquiry
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New legislation will clear and compensate sub-postmasters who were the victims of what has been called the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice.
Hundreds were wrongly prosecuted after faulty software said money was missing from Post Office branch accounts.
The next phase of a public inquiry into what went wrong is under way.
Summary
Alan Bates - who led the campaign to expose the Horizon IT scandal - tells the Post Office inquiry the institution has spent 23 years trying to silence him
The inquiry is shown a letter from Bates to a manager in which he says the Post Office would "do anything... to keep the failures of Horizon hidden"
Bates, in another letter, criticises Sir Ed Davey - a former minister - for saying the government had an "arms-length relationship" with the Post Office
He says this attitude allowed "a once great institution to be asset stripped by little more than thugs in suits"
The Lib Dem leader has since apologised for "not seeing through the Post Office lies"
Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 sub-postmasters were prosecuted due to the faulty Horizon system
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