Post Office scandal: Investigator denies claims of ‘mafia’ behaviour
Stephen Bradshaw comes face to face with sub-postmasters he investigated at the Horizon scandal inquiry.
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The Post Office had prosecution powers and, between 1999 and 2015, it prosecuted 700 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses – an average of one a week – based on information from a computer accounting system called Horizon. Another 283 cases were brought by other bodies including the Crown Prosecution Service.