Phase 4 of the Inquiry gets into the nitty gritty of investigations and legal action taken on the back of horizon shortfalls.
With that in mind, and for those quite new to the PO Scandal, I have done a short video as an explainer of a paradigm case of a sub-postmaster or -postmistresses’ journey from being presented with an unexplained shortfall by the Post Office’s Horizon system to being convicted of dishonesty, a conviction eventually quashed in 2021.