Continuing his questioning, Jason Beer displays a letter Lord Abruthnot sent to Moya Greene in 2011, then chief executive of Royal Mail group.
It referred to the fact that the sub-postmaster who had replaced Paul Bristow – the second Horizon-linked case he had become aware of – had also been dismissed.
Lord Arbuthnot says he was concerned about the number of staff being told “you are the only person this is happening to”.
“That struck me as being profoundly wrong because they were not the only people it was happening to.
Quote Message: It was isolating those sub-postmasters and mistress so they could not get support, and it had an element of intimidation about it – all of which set the Post Office in a bad light.”
It was isolating those sub-postmasters and mis