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Post Office investigator denies ‘gangster’ behaviour

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As the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal resumed, Post Office investigator Stephen Bradshaw denied claims he and others “behaved like Mafia gangsters” with threats and lies to sub-postmaster/postmistress victims from whom they tried to collect “bounty”. Bradshaw told the inquiry that he denied the allegation…

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