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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jane Croft

Post Office investigators saw Horizon victims as ‘enemies’, inquiry told

Post Office sign on a building
Hundreds of people running UK post offices were wrongly prosecuted for theft and false accounting and had their lives ruined. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Post office operators who blamed the Horizon IT system for cash shortfalls in their branches were viewed by the state-owned company’s investigators as “enemies of the business”, a public inquiry has heard.

The Post Office inquiry has seen part of a draft report prepared in 2013 by investigators at the accountancy firm Second Sight, which had been asked to examine concerns around the Horizon IT system.

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