Sir Keir Starmer has said that only a 'handful' of cases linked to the Horizon scandal may have been handled by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) during his time in charge of the organisation.
The Labour leader, who was the Director of Public Prosecutions at the CPS between 2008 and 2013, has said he was not aware of Horizon cases brought against subpostmasters.
The majority of cases against victims of the scandal were brought by the Post Office using its own private prosecutions powers.
That has prompted calls for the Post Office to be stripped of those powers in the future, as the fall-out from the scandal continues.
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