
The Post Office’s head of legal services has apologised to the Horizon IT scandal inquiry after a document which used racist terms to describe wrongly convicted subpostmasters was circulated among staff as recently as 2019.
Group general counsel for Post Office Limited (POL), Ben Foat, told the inquiry lawyers have since identified 23 occasions the “unacceptable” document was sent among POL’s security team between 2012 and May 2019.