The lawyer responsible for deciding to prosecute a post office operator who subsequently lost her business, and suffered a ruptured thyroid from the stress of the ordeal, has told the inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal that he was never shown information that may have stopped the case going to court.
Kevin Shiels, now a senior public prosecutor at Northern Ireland’s Public Prosecution Service (PPS), was responsible for deciding that there was enough evidence to prosecute Maureen McKelvey in 2004 for the theft of £4,600 from her Post Office in Clanabogan.
