it refers to the case of lee castleton. were you aware of lee castleton.tates that article? no. - it states that he was article? no. _ it states that he was declared bankrupt after she refused to pay post office £27. lee castleton insists he did not all that money although it showed as a loss on the post office horizon system which is used by postmasters to do their accounting. he is one of several postmasters to come across losses he could not explain. if you could turn over the page, please. having lost the case lee castleton was left with costs of £321,000. in 2007 he filed for bankruptcy stop i was into deep, the whole thing has been heartbreaking, i see that now, he said. the trial of lee castleton, post office versus lee castleton, was heard whilst you were managing director. you see were not aware of it. i director. you see were not aware of it. ., , ., ., it. i was unaware. £321,000, - it. i was unaware. - £321,000, significant debt it. i was unaware. _ £321,000, significant debt to be old, isn't it? in £321,000, significant debt to be old, isn't i

you say that you had no idea of mr castleton's case, certainly the name castleton, until you read thatss for making decisions when the post office was involved in quite high profile, high court litigation. post office instigated proceedings against mr castleton for approximately, the figure doesn't matter, approximately £25,000. said to be a shortfall, as evidenced by data from horizon. mr castleton defended it on the basis that there was no shortfall, and this was all the fault of the computer. it gradually grew from being what might be called a fairly conventional action for the recovery of a debt, into a potential large scale argument about whether or not horizon was reliable. and this was all unfolding in the first eight, nine, ten months of you being managing director. but none of this got to you? nope. the learnings from this are they are. let me carry on. when the very experienced barrister who was acting for the post office told the experienced solicitor who had instructed him, who in turn told the legal department of the post office, that the costs involved in this case were g

there was an incredible moment in that drama when the lee castleton character said, "this is never goingeah. yeah, but we just have to stick with it because we have lived it all this time, so if they think we are actually going to wither and go away until it is all sorted, we won't. lord arbuthnot says he finds it difficult to stop thinking about all the sub—postmasters who have died before seeing justice. zoe conway, bbc news. it's been revealed that more than a quarter of all uk overseas aid was spent here in the uk on asylum costs. critics say the government has "lost its grip" by allowing the home office to use the foreign aid budget. caroline hawley is here with me. this will shock a lot of people? these are the figures released today, the total aid budget last year was £151; today, the total aid budget last year was £15.4 billion. £4.3 billion, about 28%, was spent not on alleviating poverty around the world but here in the uk, a rise of around £600 million on the year before, it was spent on refugees and asylum seekers, most of the money used by the home office hotels, accommodati

not good enough for lee castleton, who was left bankrupt and suicidal by his treatment at the hands ofrial department. the people in royal mail who in their in their prosecutions department in the law helped post office and actually helped their own lawyers in house and took part in some of the prosecutions. so, no, i'm sorry. i don't believe that. former managing director alan cook also made the extraordinary admission that during his tenure he had no idea the post office had the power to prosecute its own people. he apologized face to face to janet skinner, who was wrongly jailed. i can only apologise on behalf of the whole organisation for the way that you were treated. it was disgraceful. i can only apologise personally that whilst i had not heard of your case, i'm nevertheless, i have an accountability that i should have been on top of it. and i wasn't. next week, the inquiry will hear from some of those who were central to the prosecution, conviction and evenjailing of hundreds of innocent people. mark ashdown, bbc news. inspired by the songs of abba, mamma mia the musical is now

there was an incredible moment in that drama when the lee castleton character said, "this is never going just have to stick with it because we have lived it all this time, so if they think we are actually going to wither and go away until it is all sorted, we won't. lord arbuthnot says he finds it difficult to stop thinking about all the sub—postmasters who have died before seeing justice. zoe conway, bbc news. britain's most successful gymnast, max whitlock, has announced that he will retire after the olympics in paris this summer. the 31—year—old is bidding to become the first to win four olympic medals on the same apparatus when he competes on the pommel horse. at rio 2016, he became team gb�*s first individual olympic gold medallist in gymnastics. it still feels a bit weird. i've made a decision and it's the right time for me that paris 2024 olympics, hopefully be my fourth olympic games, but will also be my final olympic games. i have done this sport for 24 years, i'm 31 years old now, i feel it in my gut, and i think you have got to listen to that, that, yeah, it's the right time f

lee castleton says we are not survivors, we are still victims. concerned, the correspondence he has been showing today sums it up, he told the post office there were problems, constantly victims were flagging up the issues, the post office was engaged in ignoring those complaints, instead saying it was a robust system. he said the attitude throughout all this, we are right, everyone else is wrong. in the next few weeks, because this next phase of the inquiry will last 15 weeks, we will hear from the people who have occupied some of the highest levels of power within the post office during this entire ordeal because, remember, this has been a decades long fight, including paula venables —— paula vennells. you can go straight to our website via the qr code to see our right page —— live page. you can see some of the key moments and testimony from alan bates, champion of the sub—postmaster two and the fight against the post office, stay with us on bbc news. just to let you know, we are waiting for a news conference between lord cameron, uk foreign se

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they | didn't mention the case of lee castleton and the obtaining of a report from bdo hayward which �* ., no. they didn't mention the ac uittal no. they didn't mention the acquittal of— no. they didn't mention the acquittal of another- no. they didn't mention the acquittal of another person l no. they didn't mention the i acquittal of another person by a jury acquittal of another person by a jury in 2004 and mrs mckelvey having blamed horizon for the causing of losses of money that she was accused of stealing? no, they didn't. they did not mention the speedy acquittal of suzanne palmer by a jury in 2007. mrs palmer also having blamed horizon a trial for the losses attributable or said to be attributable or said to be attributable to her? there was a question directed to the jury about what mrs palmer is to do if she didn't agree the figure that horizon had produced which the post office had produced which the post office had been unable or unwilling to answer and an order of the post office to pay £70,000 in costs. ida. office to pay £70,000 in costs. no. they didn't — office to pay

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