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A Post Office sign nearby the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry at Aldwych House, central London, April 24, 2024
“At local level, it’s different."
THE Post Office is “not fit to be a specialist reporting agency” after the Horizon scandal and has been stripped of that status in Scotland, MSPs have heard.
Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has stepped-in to remove the centuries-old investigative powers from the Post Office thought to have played a key role in the miscarriages of justice.
Speaking in Holyrood, Ms Bain — Scotland’s chief prosecutor and legal adviser to the Scottish government — told MSPs: “Because of its fundamental and sustained failures in connection with Horizon cases in Scotland, I’ve decided that Post Office Limited is not fit to be a specialist reporting agency.
There are only two things that stand between workers and the musket’s volley today - the ballot and the union, asserts MATT KERR
