Post Office prone to have solid paperwork throughout Horizon scandal

The Post Office was prone to have created ‘fictitious accounts’ and solid paperwork throughout the Horizon scandal, a lawyer has claimed.

MPs had been informed the corporate used the tactic to dismiss individuals and shut down 1000’s of branches. 

Dr Neil Hudgell of Hudgell Solicitors, representing subpostmasters, mentioned quite a few experiences about conduct on the Post Office imply nothing might be ‘assumed’ any longer. 

It comes as Post Office boss Nick Read was given a dressing down by MPs for failing to reply primary questions or present important particulars in regards to the scandal, leaving one MP ‘completely appalled’.

Dr Neil Hudgell of Hudgell Solicitors, representing subpostmasters, mentioned quite a few experiences about conduct on the Post Office imply nothing might be ‘assumed’ any longer

Dr Hudgell mentioned: ‘I’ve acquired some points with particular instances when – it might have been three or 4 years in the past – I believed this wasn’t potential, however forgery of documentation and the creation of fictitious accounts to dismiss persons are firmly in my sights as extra prone to occur than not.

‘You cannot assume something now in terms of the behaviour that is gone on during the last 20 years.

‘Every week there is a new revelation – and one good factor that is going to return from the dramatisation is the growing variety of whistleblowers which might be ready to return out and spill the beans the place they did not essentially earlier than have the flexibility to try this.’

Last week it emerged that the Post Office’s fraud crew acquired money bonuses for every postmaster convicted.

Long-serving worker Gary Thomas informed the inquiry that an incentive scheme together with ‘bonus goals’ influenced his behaviour as an investigator.