"The evil the Post Office did was profound", a lawyer has told the Horizon IT scandal inquiry while describing a "deliberate conspiracy" and "cover up".



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Post Office’s ‘malignant culture’ destroyed Horizon victims’ lives, inquiry told

The “malignant culture” of the Post Office destroyed the lives of the victims of the Horizon IT scandal, not the system itself, an inquiry has heard.

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Post Office Inquiry: Company accused of having 'malignant culture' that did 'profound evil'

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After more than two years, the Post Office Inquiry hearings draw to a close with final statements from lawyers representing core participants.

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Edward Henry KC, who is representing victims, delivered his closing submission to the hearings with a powerful and damning monologue. He accused the Post Office of “profound evil”, adding that it “was the cause, the perpetrator and prolonger of the one of the most serious miscarriages of justice in our history”. More than 900 sub-postmasters were wrongfully convicted of offences including theft, fraud and false accounting between 1999 and 2015. …

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