Post Office investigator grilled over Horizon scandal in Inquiry hearing

Stephen Bradshaw tells the Post Office inquiry that a legal team wrote his witness statement, that he “in hindsight” doesn’t approve of.

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[jwalks]

As an ex police officer who understands exactly what a disclosure officer is and what responsibility they have, it shows this fella's level of incompetency and ignorance. He must have been delighted when some of the post masters were found guilty and sent to prison and their lives ruined. He's culpable of sending innocent people to hope there's Karma coming.

[billdennis]

Stephen Bradshaw needs to be in prison ASAP.

[stevebarber]

If this man isn't held accountable for what he's done then there is something seriously wrong with the British justice system

[durhamgrigg]

Put this guy in JAIL for LIFE and take his full pension away from him NOW!!!!

[SerialSpankR]

The fact that this man is sitting in a tax payer funded final salary pension is sickening

[simonbowler]

Thick as mince, no sense of empathy, clearly bullied his way through life and got a power trip out of his role as an investigator. Let’s hope he faces justice…..

[dearmud]

What a scumbag. Absolving himself of any blame, as guilty as any of them, hopefully he gets prosecuted.

[yogibear]

Absolutely disgraceful. Corrupt to the core.

[XxHaythamKenwayxX]

This guy is basically the embodiment of corporate management - completely disassociated himself from the humanity of the subject and instead pointed blame at those under him.

[knightowl]

He is not as clever as he thinks, and just clever enough to dig himself deeper into a whole world of trouble. A cocky, arrogant bully who will try to put the blame on anyone around him to save his own neck. Powers of arrest and investigation need to be removed from the Post Office. We can all see from this inquiry the quality of people they hire as security. This man comes over as little more than a low-class common thug.

[Deadmaul]

Sorry if you have 100s of people accused of the same crime and pleading their innocence it should of been red flags. This man clearly enjoyed thinking he was solving crimes while not actually being sure of what hes accusing people of. This man should serve the time served by all the victims combined.

[lizcollinson]

An investigator who signed a witness statement without knowing and agreeing with the contents, is just horrifying. He doesn't have the integrity to investigate spilt milk.

[avakholwadia]

I watched this testimony from start to finish. This guy is totally committed to the post office and what ever they told him he did. He came across as a bully and total lack of empathy to the damage he contributed towards. He didn’t remember important things, yet towards the end he could quote dates etc as if it happened yesterday. He went into his job abusing his power and I can only imagine the pain and confusion he was solely responsible for. He is a foot soldier and everyone involved should be fined and do prison time.

[NathanT]

Stephen Bradshaw is an evil, nasty bully and needs to be punished with the fulll force of the law for the harm and distress he has caused to so many people.
There is no way he should still be working for the post office after sitting there lying through his teeth.
How can someone just sign off witness statements written by someone else and think that is acceptable.

[gilesk]

This man should be immediately locked up and then he can try and prove his innocence like the postmasters.

[aoifesofficialextra]

Prison for this dude, and plenty of it.

[MarkInOxford]

What a horrifically arrogant man. Absolutely no remorse whatsoever for the misery he put hundreds of people through.

[shaunm]

This type of man thinks he’s always, always right. He will never think or admit he did anything wrong.

[jimandali]

He only apologised when he got found out. He thinks if he admits to nothing he hopes he won’t get found out. Paper trails will shrink his ego.

[iancameron]

Lying through his teeth
He should be charged with contempt