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• Lessons must be learned from the Post Office scandal | Letters

  07-05-2023 18:13
  
  Readers respond to Marina Hyde’s article about the silence that surrounds a widespread miscarriage of justice Marina Hyde is right that there has not been nearly enough outrage about the Post Office/Horizon scandal (Hundreds of lives ruined. Not a single person held to account. And still: silence on the Post Office scandal, 2 May). One of the most disturbing aspects is that Post Office Ltd was allowed to bring private prosecutions, thereby acting as victim, investigator and prosecutor at o
  
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• Anti-coronation protest leader hits out at police over arrests

  07-05-2023 16:00
  
  Graham Smith said Met officers should hang their heads in shame after 52 detained in central LondonPolice who arrested anti-monarchy protesters before King Charles III’s coronation have “destroyed whatever trust might have existed between peaceful protesters and the Metropolitan police,” the chief executive of the campaign group Republic has said.After six members of the group were arrested at about 7.30am on Saturday – before their protest had begun – and had their
  
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