Post Office inquiry hearing from victims' campaigner Lord Arbuthnot

Summary

1. The Post Office inquiry is hearing from Lord Arbuthnot, a leading supporter of the campaign for justice for hundreds of wrongly convicted sub-postmasters
2. He was the MP for one of the accused, and is now a member of the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board
3. Sir Anthony Hooper, a former Court of Appeal judge and chairman of the Post Office's mediation scheme, will also give evidence
4. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 sub-postmasters were prosecuted due to the faulty Horizon system
5. Alan Bates - who led the campaign to expose the Horizon IT scandal - told the inquiry yesterday that the institution has spent 23 years trying to silence him
6. Bates said he was "concerned" former chief executive Paula Vennells was "not being told the full story" about investigations by forensic accountants
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