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There must be no hiding place for scandal-hit Post Office bosses, food workers demand
A post office van in Aldwych, central London, January 11, 2024

THERE must be no hiding place for scandal-hit Post Office bosses who “destroyed lives and then lied about it,” food workers demanded today.

Bakers’ union delegates gathered in Staffordshire for the union’s 2024 conference unanimously backed calls for those responsible for a huge miscarriage of justice to receive “no protection from the Establishment.”

The damning intervention comes amid growing demands for criminal prosecutions of those in charge during the Horizon IT system scandal, in which hundreds of innocent subpostmasters were wrongly accused of theft and endured prison terms and bankruptcy.

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