Hired in 2019, he claims the recruitment failed to mention ongoing litigation
The chief executive of the Post Office has agreed the organization's leadership team was living in a"dream world" in the months leading up to the launch of a statutory inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in UK history.
Horizon is an EPOS and back-end finance system for thousands of Post Office branches around the UK, first implemented by ICL, a UK technology company later bought by Fujitsu. From 1999 until 2015, around 736 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses were wrongfully convicted of fraud when errors in the system were to blame. A statutory inquiry into the mass miscarriage of justice launched in 2021 is ongoing.
Speaking for the inquiry today, Jason Beer KC said when Read was appointed, the common issues judgment – which related to contractual relationships with the postmasters – had been handed down already, while the related Horizon issues trial was about to start. It found the system was the cause of accounting irregularities and the Post Office's failure to investigate the problems suggested"the most dreadful complacency … bordering on fearfulness of what might be found if they were properly investigated."
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