Police have warned that it could be another two years before anyone appears in court over potential criminal acts linked to the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.
Some 100 officers are investigating possible crimes committed by people involved in the wrongful prosecution of more than 900 sub-postmasters.Operation Olympos is being led by teams across the UK and has been described as “unprecedented in size” with thousands of potential victims and more than 1.5 million documents which have to be reviewed.
“Given the amount of delay the subpostmasters have already had to suffer, I understand the police have a lot of work to do but we’ve learned so much from the public inquiry that it’s a great pity that it can’t get ahead any quicker.“I think there will be prosecutions and from the evidence I’ve seen in the public inquiry I think there will be convictions.“I am optimistic that eventually justice will be done. It’s just taking too long.
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