The Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, has accused the Post Office of lying to him, as he apologised to Sir Alan Bates for turning down a meeting as the former post office operator tried to expose the scandal over the Horizon computer system.
Davey, who served as postal affairs minister between 2010 and 2012, was giving evidence at the inquiry into the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of post office operators on the basis of flawed accounting data from Horizon. It is often described as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history.
