Postmasters in a sentence

I would like to thank affected postmasters, individuals that have worked with postmasters and parliamentarians for bringing this to light.

A 2008 compliance document required security team investigators to divide suspect postmasters into categories including ‘negroid types’.

Ian is also looking to continue to offer holiday relief cover for other Postmasters.

According to Ms Perkins' note, Mr Grant had gone on to discuss cases of alleged fraud by sub-postmasters at the time, pointing out that "suspects suggest it's a systems problem".

A spokesman for the Department for Business and Trade said: “We pay tribute to the incredible campaign that Alan has led and his determination to get justice for the thousands of innocent postmasters affected by this scandal.

At the time she was accused of theft she knew nothing of similar accusations being levelled at other sub-postmasters.

Between 1999 and 2015, the Post Office prosecuted hundreds of sub-postmasters and mistresses based on the faulty Horizon IT system.

Conversations involving Post Office company secretary Alwen Lyons and chief lawyer Susan Crichton suggest they knew about problems with the company's Fujitsu IT system two years before the last sub-postmasters were jailed in 2015.

David Cameron's government knew the Post Office had ditched a secret investigation that might have helped wrongly accused postmasters prove their innocence, the BBC can reveal.

Days after airing, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced new legislation to exonerate sub-postmasters wrongly convicted in the Horizon scandal and former Post Office Paula Vennels handed back her CBE.

Details of the document, first reported by the BBC, show “Post Office management” knew sub-postmasters may not be to blame for data discrepancies but continued to fight them in court regardless.

Emergency measures to overturn the convictions of hundreds of wronged postmasters could be unveiled as soon as today.

Engaging in a prolonged legal battle, he campaigned alongside others to clear the names of Post Office sub-postmasters who faced criminal convictions due to faulty accounting software.

Fujitsu was “truly sorry” and had a “moral obligation” redress for sub-postmasters.

He focused on two former sub-postmasters, Tony Downey and Panjalingam Karunakumaran, who were victims of the scandal whilst working in Cumbria.

It also proposes new branch IT for postmasters, and to increase Post Office banking hubs to 500 by 2030.

It secured more than 900 convictions of sub-postmasters, as they are known.

It was a vital service that many communities relied on, and often rural postmasters and mistresses found themselves in grave danger targeted by raiders.

Meanwhile, the government has pledged to speed up compensation to former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells and other board members, after almost 1,000 sub-postmasters and mistresses accused them of stealing from public funds.

Mr Staunton also told the inquiry that people within the Post Office “didn’t fully accept” the rulings made by Justice Fraser, which found that the Horizon IT system had caused errors that led to wrongful prosecutions of postmasters.