Former manager complained about move to ‘water down’ prosecutions, inquiry told
by Josh Payne
Feb 01, 2024
3 minutes
A former Post Office employee complained of a “sad, short-sighted and disastrous move” to “water down” subpostmaster prosecutions while Horizon system bugs were being investigated, an inquiry has heard.
Graham Ward, a former security team casework manager and financial investigator, denied he was angry when he sent a late evening email to a colleague about the decision to slow down or stop prosecutions in 2012.
Mr Ward conceded he was aware that challenges to the Horizon system and the work of the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance (JFSA) campaign group were “impacting on the strategy
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