Former Post Office boss says he didn’t know they were prosecuting hundreds of subpostmasters

Two former Post Office and Royal Mail bosses have told the Horizon inquiry they did not know the Post Office was prosecuting hundreds of subpostmasters itself.

The Inquiry also heard that former managing director Alan Cook had blamed “subbies with their hand in the till” for accounting discrepancies – a phrase he said he would regret for the rest of his life.