Horizon Inquiry Witness Denies Post Office Investigators ‘Behaved Liked Mafia Gangsters’

A witness at the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal has denied Post Office investigators “behaved like mafia gangsters” and bullied postmasters and sub-postmasters during interviews. Stephen Bradshaw, who was an investigation manager for the Post Office, accused Jacqueline McDonald of telling him a “pack of lies” during an investigation into a £50,000 shortfall. Ms. McDonald, who was later jailed for 18 months, was one of around 700 postmasters and sub-postmasters wrongly accused of fraud because of an error in the Horizon accounting software made by the Japanese firm Fujitsu. At least one committed suicide as a result of being falsely accused by the Post Office....