Apr 16, 2022
'The Post Office interrogated me for hours'
"The Post Office were aware then that Horizon was having issues but they still chose to prosecute me, and that is just malicious, nasty, and all the other words you can think of that fit into that category," Pauline tells the BBC.Pauline had two girls at home, the youngest had just turned two when she was eventually brought to court. A public inquiry is now looking into the Post Office's decision to prosecute more than 700 of its own staff over Horizon-related discrepancies, and evidence from many victims has shown that Pauline is far from alone in her experience of being investigated. While it's understood that some institutions like the Home Office, the Serious Fraud Office, and the Health and Safety Executive have specialist knowledge that the police would not necessarily have, they still have to act within very strict guidelines when gathering that evidence - just as the police do. Mr Edwards adds that because the Post Office believed it would be able to recoup lost money through these investigations, it presented "Such a conflict of interests that that right to bring a prosecution should no longer exist". The RSPCA has recently decided voluntarily to stop bringing private prosecutions after its activity was questioned, along with that of the Post Office, by Parliament's Judicial Affairs Committee.
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