Post Office accused of withholding documents from IT scandal inquiry

Lawyers for unfairly convicted operators accuse company of malevolent' tactics in row over 30,000 documents

The Post Office has been accused of withholding thousands of documents from the inquiry into an IT scandal that led to more 700 unsafe convictions.

The Post Office IT inquiry resumed on Tuesday with a strongly worded row over the failure to disclosure more than 30,000 documents. Lawyers for the unfairly convicted operators accused the Post Office of continuing to deploy malevolent" tactics to frustrate justice.