“The Post Office threatened and lied to the BBC in a failed effort to suppress key evidence that helped clear postmasters in the Horizon scandal.”
Post Office managers told the BBC nobody could remotely alter branch accounts. Their own directors had been warned four years earlier that Fujitsu could. Between 1999 and 2015 the Post Office prosecuted 700 sub-postmasters on the strength of that software. Paula Vennells congratulated her PR team for delaying the broadcast by a few weeks.