Post Office inquiry live updates: Ex-Post Office chair Alice Perkins giving evidence – BBC News

June 6, 2024

Summary

Alice Perkins, former chair of Post Office Ltd from 2011 to 2015, is giving evidence to the inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal for a second day
Perkins led a Post Office board sub-committee, codenamed “Project Sparrow”, which included Paula Vennells and other senior officials
A secret plan to sack independent forensic accountants Second Sight was revealed in the minutes of two Project Sparrow meetings in 2014
More than 900 sub-postmasters were prosecuted for stealing because of incorrect information from a computer system called Horizon
On Wednesday, Perkins apologised to the victims. The inquiry also heard that she was warned about potential faults in the Horizon IT system as early as 2011
You can watch the inquiry live from by clicking play at the top of this page – there will not be regular text updates