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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ted Hennessey

Post Office inquiry chair warns of ‘criminal sanction’ over disclosure failures

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Failing to provide evidence about Post Office workers wrongly convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting may lead to imprisonment, the chairman of the inquiry into the scandal has warned.

The Post Office has identified a total of 700 convictions of sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses (SPMs) in cases it prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 in which Horizon computer system evidence might have featured.

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