Post Office used racial slur to describe innocent sub-postmasters under investigation

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Post Office used racial slur to describe innocent sub-postmasters under investigation
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Post Office prosecutors tasked with investigating sub-postmasters in the notorious Horizon scandal used a racial slur to classify black workers, according to documents obtained by campaigners.

used a racial slur to classify black workers, according to documents obtained by campaigners.

Former subpostmaster at Hogsthorpe, Tom Hedges, holds a bottle of champagne aloft outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London in April 2021

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