PO's investigator denies bully claims

A POST Office investigator has denied claims he and others "behaved like Mafia gangsters" who were looking to collect "bounty with the threats and lies" from subpostmasters.

Stephen Bradshaw, who has been employed at the Post Office since 1978, submitted a witness statement to the Horizon IT inquiry in which he said: "I refute the allegation that I am a liar." He told the inquiry he was not "technically minded" and was not equipped to know whether there were bugs or errors in the Horizon system.

The witness began giving evidence on Thursday after being involved in the criminal investigation of nine subpostmasters, including Lisa Brennan, a former counter clerk at a post office in Huyton, near Liverpool, who was falsely accused of stealing £3,000 in 2003.