Post Office asked to use Horizon IT data to support criminal case this year, inquiry hears

The Fujitsu boss accused the Post Office investigations team of seeing itself as a ‘victim’ . Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP

The Post Office attempted to use Horizon IT data to support a criminal case against a post office owner earlier this year, despite hundreds of post office operators being wrongfully prosecuted for theft, fraud and false accounting because of bugs in the system.

A chain of email correspondence between the Post Office and the Horizon developer, Fujitsu, relating to a police investigation into a potential criminal case involving a “large sum of money” against a sub-post office operator was shown at the public inquiry into the scandal on Tuesday.