Live: Post Office Horizon inquiry continues as compensation advisor Lord Arbuthnot gives evidence

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Watch stay as Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom – a member of the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board gives evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry on Wednesday 10 April.

The former MP for North East Hampshire will converse a day after lead campaigner and former subpostmaster Alan Bates informed the inquiry he believed the Post Office was “definitely trying to outspend us” as a part of its “aggressive” ways on the High Court.

Giving evidence in entrance of Post Office chief government Nick Read on Tuesday, Mr Bates mentioned the organisation “needs disbanding” and known as it a “dead duck” that’s “beyond saving”.

He additionally took intention on the authorities’s “fundamental flaw” of being unable to cope with points such as the Horizon scandal “easily and sensibly”.

The Post Office has come below hearth because the broadcast of ITV drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, which put the scandal below the highlight.

More than 700 subpostmasters have been prosecuted by the government-owned organisation and handed prison convictions between 1999 and 2015 as Fujitsu’s defective Horizon system made it seem as although cash was lacking at their branches.