Former Minister Reveals Misleading Advice in Post Office Horizon Scandal
Baroness Neville-Rolfe testifies about being misled by officials regarding faulty IT system and wrongful prosecutions.
- Baroness Neville-Rolfe was unaware that the Post Office stopped prosecutions due to a lack of expert witnesses.
- She expressed concerns over wrongful convictions of honest citizens based on flawed Horizon IT data.
- Neville-Rolfe criticized civil servants for providing inaccurate and biased information.
- More than 700 subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted, awaiting full compensation.
- The inquiry highlights significant failures in the oversight of the Horizon IT system.