All news on the topic: Public inquiry

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Post Office investigator denies being like 'Mafia gangster' as staff in tears
In evidence to the Post Office Inquiry, Stephen Bradshaw was confronted with claims of bullying and forced to deny his team acted like 'Mafia gangsters' towards innocent postmasters
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Kate Middleton's ex postmaster makes one more plea for justice after new deal
Kate Middleton's former postmaster Hasmukh Shingadia, 63, fought for 10 years to have his wrongful conviction relating to the Horizon IT scandal to be overturned
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Fujitsu still gets contracts worth £100m-a-year despite Post Office scandal
Since 2012 – more than a decade after the Post Office accounting scandal began – the public sector has awarded Fujitsu almost 200 contracts worth £6.8billion in total, analyst says
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Fujitsu should stop getting taxpayer millions after Post Office scandal, say MPs
Japanese technology firm Fujitsu is still being allowed to bid for lucrative Government work even after its faulty Horizon software led to innocent postmasters being sent to jail
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Mum left disabled and can't have sex after disgraced surgeon botched operation
Disgraced surgeon Sam Eljamel inflicted horror upon dozens of victims who trusted him as the head of neurosurgery at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee before he was eventually suspended
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Mr Bates Vs The Post Office star Julie urges viewers to demand compensation
Former Coronation Street favourite Julie who played Alan Bates’ wife Suzanne, said she had been blown away by the anger generated by the ITV drama
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‘I exposed Mr Bates vs Post Office scandal 15 years ago - no one would listen’
Serious problems with the Post Office’s Horizon accounting software, supplied by Japanese firm Fujitsu in 1999, were wrongly being blamed on innocent staff who were sacked or suspended
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What happened to postmaster Noel Thomas who spent 60th birthday behind bars
Noel Thomas was sentenced to nine months in prison after being wrongly convicted in the Post Office IT scandal currently being highlighted in a new ITV drama - here he tells how it still affects him and his family to this day as their fight for justice continues
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'Post Office scandal saw me jailed with child killers and lose home'
It's now emerged that hundreds of former post office workers had been mistakenly accused of stealing, with dozens convicted in court and others jailed
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Petition to strip ex-Post Office boss of CBE hits 100,000 after ITV drama
The ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office has led to an avalanche of new signatures on a petition on 38 Degrees to strip ex-Post Office chief of her 2019 CBE award
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Enough evidence for police investigation into Post Office scandal, say lawyers
Lawyers representing postmasters caught up in the Horizon scandal say they believe the public inquiry has unearthed enough evidence for police to potentially prosecute senior Post Office figures
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Nuked blood: Rishi Sunak "made to look an idiot" by his officials
No10 officials have told nuclear veterans their medical records are not missing, but won't let the PM meet them to discuss it
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Baby-voiced Jon Venables describes James Bulger murder in harrowing recording
Jon Venables and Robert Thompson took toddler James Bulger from a shopping centre in Liverpool and brutally murdered him before trying to blame each other for their sick crimes
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Matt Hancock claims Boris Johnson 'apologised for hiring Dominic Cummings'
In documents submitted alongside his evidence to the Covid-19 inquiry, Mr Hancock repeatedly complained about Mr Cummings’ behaviour - which he claims the ex-PM accepted his former Chief Aide had “damaged” the coronavirus response effort
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Post Office hero rejects OBE as boss blamed for scandal allowed to keep honour
Alan Bates was angry as the person he and so many others blame for a wrongful prosecution scandal still retains her own honour
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Firearms cop to face 'earliest' disciplinary hearing for fatal shooting in 2015
The officer - described only as W80 - shot Jermaine Baker, from Tottenham, north London, as police stopped a plot to snatch two prisoners from a van near Wood Green Crown Court nearly eight years ago
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Woman locked in legal battle after blocking ramblers from using path near home
Sine Garvie-Mcinally used wooden stakes to block off a 150m stretch of footpath by her home near the Norfolk village of Newton by Castle Acre amid a legal battle with walkers
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Stephen Lawrence police officer was 'corrupt', secret Met Police report found
Ray Adams was a commander at the time of the 1993 racist killing, and an earlier investigation against him was manipulated, the secret Line of Duty-style investigation said
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Police treating 'NHS board as suspect' in sudden death of 10-year-old girl
Milly Main died in 2017 after she contracted an infection at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital with Scotland's biggest health board now reportedly being considered a formal suspect
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Starmer blasts 'shocking' conduct of Tories after Covid Inquiry revelations
The Labour leader said the revelations from Baroness Heather Hallett's public inquiry this week shone a light on the behaviour of those at the top of No10 at the height of the crisis
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'Covid inquiry isn't Gaza or Ukraine - but it's our war for honest government'
Even for a news junkie like me, rolling war coverage gets hard to take
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'Disgraced Boris Johnson signing a deal with GB News confirms he has no shame'
From Partygate to a bad Brexit deal and lie after lie after lie, the ex-Prime Minister proves himself just like Donald Trump, incapable of telling the truth
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Chilling miscarriages of justice - murdered mum, postmasters and showbiz death
Colin Stagg, the man who was wrongly accused of ­murdering young mum Rachel Nickell has revealed he is living in a homeless ­shelter after blowing £706,000 in compensation. It's not the only high profile miscarriage of justice to rock the UK
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Labour promises the bloody truth to nuke veterans
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner pledged full accountability to nuclear veterans battling for the truth about their missing blood records
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Boss at Lucy Letby hospital branded 'dismissive' of concerns about killer nurse
Tony Chambers was asked this week by ITV News’ Paul Brand if he had ignored the concerns of doctors at the time of killings, but said he would 'save it for the public inquiry'