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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter

Post Office inquiry has heard ‘chorus of cowards’, lawyers say

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The Post Office pursued more than 900 branch managers over alleged missing money between 1999 and 2015. Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock

The Post Office scandal inquiry has heard from a “chorus of cowards” and a “parade of liars, bullies, amnesiacs and arrogant individuals”, lawyers for victims have said in a call for criminal prosecutions during a hearing in London.

In their closing statements at the latest phase of the inquiry, the legal representatives of hundreds of post office operators whose lives were ruined rounded on the men and women who had given evidence in recent weeks.

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