The British Post Office scandal “was first exposed by Computer Weekly in 2009, revealing the stories of seven sub-postmasters and the problems they encountered as a result of the Horizon accounting software,” recalls Computerweekly“leading to the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British history.”
But now the Post Office is investigating allegations that a senior executive directed staff to destroy or hide documents that could be important to the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal. Computerweekly writes. A company employee acknowledged a report in an internal whistleblowing program “regarding the destruction or concealment of material… allegations that a senior Post Office employee directed his team to destroy or conceal material that may have been relevant to the investigation, and that the same individual had engaged in inappropriate conduct.”
The shocking revelation reflects evidence from wrongful conviction appeals in 2021. During the Court of Appeal trials, it was revealed that a senior Post Office director instructed employees to destroy documents that undermined the emphasis that the Horizon computer system was robust, amid claims that errors in the system caused unexplained accounting deficiencies.