The interview was upstairs, without proper access for a wheelchair, Jacobs continues, and Threlfall was placed in a 'tiny parcel lift'. It'll carry on at the same time tomorrow - 10am.Ĭhristopher Jacobs, a lawyer acting on behalf of Rita Threlfall, says Threlfall uses a wheelchair and, when she met Bradshaw to be interviewed in 2010, she asked for a chair and never received one, so she had to sit on stairs. Thanks for following my coverage of the inquiry today, it's been a pleasure. One thing's for sure, though - interest in this scandal isn't going away anytime soon. Some of the sub-postmasters and postmistresses talk to their legal teams, journalists - like me - tap furiously at their keyboards, and before long the room empties entirely. When Chair Sir Wyn Williams calls today's proceedings to an end, there's a buzz of excitement in the room. But Bradshaw denied this ever happened, saying 'I wouldn't say anything like that'. Robinson nodded along as her lawyer spoke, at times smiling and looking at her partner, Michael, sat beside her. Moloney suggests there was a time, after Stephen Bradshaw formally interviewed Robinson many years ago, that he and others were aware she hadn't taken the money. Rounding off today's hearing was Tim Moloney KC - he represents, among others, Della Robinson who sits beside him today.Ī former sub-postmistress at Dukinfield Post Office in Cheshire, Robinson was convicted in 2013 of false accounting. Bradshaw insisted he'd 'never threatened anyone with prosecution' and categorically denied telling postmasters or postmistresses 'that they were the only one'

Jacobs said 49 of the 156 sub-postmasters he represents said they were told by the Post Office that they were the only one being investigated and 61 were threatened with prosecution. Edward Henry KC, representing former sub-postmistress Janet Skinner, put it to Bradshaw that he and his team were 'drenched in information that Horizon wasn't working', to which Bradshaw accepted that the information 'came through'Ĭhristopher Jacobs, a lawyer representing former sub-postmistress Shazia Saddiq, told Bradshaw he had 'hounded' her and others but Bradshaw denied this Lawyers representing the victims at the heart of the scandal had the opportunity to put some questions to Bradshaw.Throughout the hearing, Bradshaw insisted he was only 'a liaison' and deflected much of the responsibility for key decisions to the lawyers representing the Post Office - Cartwright King

Bradshaw insisted his role was to gather evidence and pass it on to solicitors Inquiry counsel Julian Blake asked Bradshaw if he should have looked further into claims there were issues with the Horizon IT system. As the inquiry wraps up for the day, let's run through some of the main points that were put to Stephen Bradshaw, a former Post Office investigator:

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