Labour leader and former head of Crown Prosecution Service says majority of prosecutions were handled by Post Office
Chris Jackson, the lawyer acting for the Post Office, has apologised for delays in the disclosure of documents at a hearing in London as part of the inquiry into the Horizon scandal.
He is being questioned by the lead counsel to the Inquiry, Jason Beer KC.
The Post Office has asked me to convey its apologies for the current situation and to assure the inquiry and other core participants that it is a post office priority to get to a position where hearings (and planning and preparation for hearings) can take place from a stable basis.
I think it’s very important to be clear that these were, or the vast majority of these were, Post Office prosecutions brought by the Post Office in relation to their cases.
A small number, at the moment it looks like there may have been three or so, a handful of cases, in the five years that I was director of public prosecutions that were handled by the Crown Prosecution Service.
More details will emerge no doubt … it’s not clear whether they’re in the cohort of cases of concern or not.
