The business secretary has accused the Post Office chair she sacked of a ‘blatant attempt to seek revenge’ after he made explosive allegations about the governmentâs handling of the Horizon scandal. Kemi Badenoch launched an extended attack on Henry Staunton in the Commons on Monday. The furore began over the weekend after Staunton gave an … Read more
This episode was originally published on 10 May 2021. When the Post Office installed a new accounting system called Horizon across its branches in 1999, it hoped to bring a lumbering and much-loved institution into the 21st century. What happened next resulted in one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in English legal history. The … Read more
This episode originally ran on 11 May 2021. The Post Office brought prosecutions against dozens of its employees after accusing them of theft and false accounting based on evidence from its IT system called Horizon. Janet Skinner was one of those who went to jail for false accounting and last month she was one of … Read more
