Live: Post Office Horizon inquiry continues as former chair Michael Hodgkinson gives evidence

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Watch stay as Sir Michael Hodgkinson – former chair of Post Office Ltd and former senior non-executive director of Royal Mail Holdings plc – gives evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry on Thursday 11 April.

He will probably be talking after the inquiry was proven yesterday letters from former Post Office chief government Paula Vennells defending the Horizon system.

Ms Vennells steered “temptation” for subpostmasters to borrow cash from tills was an issue and never the Horizon system.

The probe into the scandal was advised how she made a “false statement” in a letter to former Conservative MP Oliver Letwin by saying that courts present in favour of the Post Office “in every instance” when prosecuting subpostmasters for theft or false accounting.

The inquiry was proven minutes of a gathering between Ms Vennells, former chair Alice Perkins and MPs such as Lord Arbuthnot – who testified yesterday – wherein she claimed a small variety of subpostmasters had been “borrowing” cash from the tills.

Lord Arbuthnot additionally mentioned he was not glad with the “brush-off” response he obtained from Ms Vennells after he raised considerations over subpostmaster complaints in regards to the Horizon system.