A former postal affairs minister said she became "worried" about Post Office prosecutions in the Horizon IT scandal when she realised they concerned "leafy middle-class people" with no previous convictions.Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe told the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry she was repeatedly "misled" by officials, including civil servants, who failed to provide her with sufficiently accurate and impartial advice regarding issues surrounding the IT system and unsafe prosecutions.

A former postal affairs minister said she became "worried" about Post Office prosecutions in the Horizon IT scandal when she realised they concerned "leafy middle-class people" with no previous convictions.Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe told the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry she was repeatedly "misled" by officials, including civil servants, who failed to provide her with sufficiently accurate and impartial advice regarding issues surrounding the IT system and unsafe prosecutions.