The new team led by Gary Brooks, former head of major crime at Lancashire Constabulary, will the under-fire Post Office investigate allegations that some detectives used bullying.
Former detectives have been brought in to investigate the role of the fraud squad, dubbed the “untouchables”, who interrogated and prosecuted hundreds of sub-postmasters during the Horizon scandal.
The Liberal Democrat leader had served as post office minister under the coalition government between 2010 and 2012 first apologised to victims earlier this month after the scandal reemerged.
LONDON Lawmakers trying to get to the bottom of one of Britain’s gravest injustices were questioning bosses of the Post Office and Fujitsu on Tuesday as momentum grew to compensate and clear the names of more than 900 Post Office branch managers wrongly convicted of theft or fraud because of the…