Published 2 months ago

Post Office scandal: Police to deploy 80 detectives for criminal inquiry

Police plan to deploy 80 detectives to investigate the Post Office scandal, with potential charges pending, revealed by the Guardian. Victims may have a lengthy wait for outcomes.
The inquiry will focus on possible perjury and perversion of justice by Post Office leaders and Fujitsu, as part of the criminal investigation.
Charging decisions will be postponed until after a public inquiry into the scandal concludes in autumn 2025, as declared by the police.

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The Guardian

Post Office scandal: Police to deploy 80 detectives for criminal inquiry

Exclusive: Investigation will dig into potential perjury offences and perverting the course of justice by senior leaders and FujitsuPolice are planning to deploy 80 detectives for their criminal inquiry into the Post Office scandal, the Guardian has learned, but victims will face a long wait to discover if charges will follow.The investigation will examine potential offences of perjury, and perverting the course of justice by Post Office senior …

2 months ago·London, United Kingdom

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Daily Mirror

Post Office scandal: UK super team of 80 detectives to carry out criminal probe

Scotland Yard is set to probe whether there are any grounds to bring criminal charges for perjury and perverting the course of justice over the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of Post Office workers

2 months ago·London, United Kingdom

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The Sun

Inquiry into Post Office scandal is to involve 80 detectives & cost £6.75m

A CRIMINAL inquiry into the Post Office scandal is set to involve 80 detectives and cost £6.75million. It will look into claims of perverting justice and perjury after 900 sub-postmasters were wrongly convicted. Criminal inquiry into the Post Office scandal is set to cost £6.75million, above former postmistress Cheryl Shaw They were prosecuted over accounting shortfalls despite known problems with the Horizon computer system they had to use. The…

2 months ago·United Kingdom

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Evening Standard

Met Police unit of 80 detectives probe Post Office Horizon scandal

Former chief executive Paula Vennells was booed by wrongly convicted subpostmasters last week

2 months ago·London, United Kingdom

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Sky News UK

Post Office Horizon IT scandal: 80 detectives across UK set to investigate

The public inquiry into why more than 700 sub-postmasters were wrongly convicted is not expected to publish its final report until autumn 2025 - meaning any potential criminal charges may not be filed until 2026 at the earliest.

2 months ago·United Kingdom

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City AM

Met to deploy 80 detectives over Post Office scandal

The Metropolitan Police is set to deploy 80 detectives to investigate the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, despite expectations that any criminal prosecutions on the incident could take years to come in. The scandal, which sparked widespread public and political outcry, saw innocent posties criminalised over false accounting due to faulty software supplied by Fujitsu, and was dramatised in Mr Bates vs The Post Office in January this year. The pol…

2 months ago·London, United Kingdom

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