Managing director between 2006 2010. Evidence was produced that seem to contradict that he did not know what was going on. Between 1999 and 2015 the Bigger Picture is that more than 900 Sub Postmasters were prosecuted due to the faulty system. Alan cooke began by putting on record what he described as a personal apology to Sub Postmasters and supposed mistresses and their families for what they had been put through. 1 what they had been put through. I wonder if i could just what they had been put through. I wonder if i could just say before we get started, to put on record most strongly my personal apology and sympathies with also postmasters, their families and those affected by this . As we get into the conversation there will be an opportunity for me to elaborate but it felt like an important thing for me to say up front. I had assumed that the police had been involved. I shouldnt have been presumed but i did presume, sadly. And that we. And that had then gone to court, was the expr