Ex-Post Office boss regrets ‘subbies with hands in the till’ line, inquiry hears

The former Post Office boss Alan Cook has said he regrets saying in an email in 2009 that he thought post office operators ‘with their hands in the till’ and were trying to blame the Horizon system for anomalies. He told the inquiry into the Horizon scandal: ‘It’s an expression I will regret for the rest of my life. It was an inappropriate thing to put in an email and not in line with my view of subpostmasters.’