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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Julia Kollewe

BIZARRE: Post office boss apologises for inquiry bonus payments - You Need To See This

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Nick Read said just 86 of the 700 wrongful convictions of postmasters had been overturned or appealed. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/PA

The boss of the Post Office has apologised for receiving bonus payments related to an inquiry into a long-running miscarriage of justice, and said hundreds of postmasters had found it “too traumatising” to come forward to challenge their convictions.

The company is being investigated by the government after the Post Office admitted it had wrongly paid thousands of pounds of bonuses to top executives simply for cooperating with an inquiry into the Post Office’s faulty Horizon computer system.

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