Apr 12, 2024
Ex-Post Office boss presumed police prosecuted Horizon victims
Former Post Office managing director Alan Cook has said he didn't realise the organisation itself was prosecuting victims of the Horizon IT scandal. Mr Cook was in charge of the Post Office between 2006 and 2010.He told the inquiry he did not know that prosecutions were being brought solely by the Post Office until 2009.He said when he was told cases "Went to court" he presumed that the police had been involved, and only found out later that roughly two thirds of cases against Horizon victims had been brought by the Post Office. During Mr Cook's time at the top from 2006 to 2010, the Post Office secured 292 Horizon convictions in England and Wales. Former sub-postmaster Janet Skinner was given a nine-month sentence in 2007 over an alleged shortfall of £59,000 from her Post Office branch in Bransholme, Hull.She served three months in prison before being released with an electronic tag, but eventually had her conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal in April 2021.Ms Skinner told the BBC Mr Cook should have been aware of what was happening in the business. Alan Bates says Post Office run by 'thugs in suits'.
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