The Post Office has been stripped of its powers to investigate and report criminal allegations to Scotland’s prosecutors due to the Horizon scandal, MSPs have been told.
Dorothy Bain KC, the lord advocate, said that the Post Office would instead have to report allegations of crimes to the police.
Appearing at the Scottish parliament on Thursday, Bain also sought to defend the Crown from suggestions it should have been more suspicious of the flawed evidence from the Horizon system.
She has previously told MSPs that 54 people are thought to have been affected by the scandal north of the border. Earlier this week, the Scottish government brought forward emergency legislation to clear the name of Scottish sub-postmasters who were wrongly convicted.
Roddy Dunlop KC, the
