Post Office apologises for false statement

Bonuses paid to senior staff based on ‘unacceptable errors’

The Post Office has offered an unreserved apology to the retired judge who is chairing the independent statutory inquiry into the failings of the Post Office’s Horizon IT system for a false statement in the state-owned company’s annual report published two months ago.

Sir Wyn Williams, the inquiry chair, said that correcting the misleading statement had …