Mar 1, 2024
Post Office staff may have broken law, say lawyers
Lawyers acting for sub-postmasters prosecuted by the Post Office claim some investigators involved in the prosecutions may have broken the law. The law firm Hodge Jones & Allen represents a number of former sub-postmasters, including Lee Castleton, who was made bankrupt after a two-year legal battle with the Post Office. He had been blamed for a shortfall of £25,000 in the accounts of his post office branch in Bridlington and when he refused to pay, the Post Office took him to court - and later pursued him for legal costs. In a submission to the official inquiry into the Post Office scandal, the law firm claimed that by the time of his trial the Post Office was aware of "System errors" with the Horizon system, but suppressed information and pushed ahead with the case against him in an attempt to acquire a legal precedent. The submission said there was evidence to support claims that a group of Post Office staff "Conspired together, and with others to pervert the course of justice by pursuing a debt claim on behalf of POL against Lee Castleton".
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