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Lost emails and last-ditch finds: how the Post Office inquiry was delayed

Public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal has been repeatedly halted by obstacles such as a ‘series of disclosure failings’

Progress in the public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal has been repeatedly halted by obstacles, many of them put in place by the Post Office itself.

The company, which is wholly owned by the state and thus the British taxpayer, has been accused of trying to slow down or frustrate attempts to piece together its part in what has been described by the prime minister himself as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history.

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