Ex-Post Office chair says senior executives misled board

Alice Perkins was in post when warnings of tech problems first emerged, but says she ‘missed’ their importance

The former chair of the Post Office has accused unnamed senior executives at the state-owned body of “misleading” its board over problems with the Horizon computer system that led to the largest miscarriage of justice in British history.

Alice Perkins on Wednesday told an inquiry into the scandal that she did not try to bury evidence of problems with Horizon.