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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Callum Parke

Post Office ‘dishonestly’ withheld evidence when suing subpostmaster, court told

Former subpostmaster Lee Castleton outside the Rolls Building in central London on Friday (James Manning/PA) - (PA Wire)

The Post Office obtained a High Court judgment against a former subpostmaster almost 20 years ago by “consciously and dishonestly withholding material evidence” in the case, the High Court has been told.

Lee Castleton, from Bridlington, East Yorkshire, was sued by the Post Office in 2005 for money it said was missing from his branch in Marine Drive, with a judge at the High Court ordering Mr Castleton to pay £25,858.95 in 2007.

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