A wheelchair dependent subpostmistress said she was placed in "a tiny parcel lift" when she was interviewed during an investigation.Rita Threlfall, who managed a branch in Liverpool, said she went to be interviewed under caution by Post Office investigator Stephen Bradshaw in August 2010.In a statement read out at the inquiry: "Upon arrival, they left my husband and me in a hallway. We asked for a chair and never received one. I ended up having to sit down on the stairs."The interview room was u

A wheelchair dependent subpostmistress said she was placed in "a tiny parcel lift" when she was interviewed during an investigation.Rita Threlfall, who managed a branch in Liverpool, said she went to be interviewed under caution by Post Office investigator Stephen Bradshaw in August 2010.In a statement read out at the inquiry: "Upon arrival, they left my husband and me in a hallway. We asked for a chair and never received one. I ended up having to sit down on the stairs."The interview room was up the stairs. I told them there was no way I could make it up the stairs."In order to make it to the interview room, I was placed in a tiny parcel lift."Giving evidence, Mr Bradshaw said: "I can only keep repeating that it is not a small parcel lift. It is wheelchair accessible."The inquiry heard that Ms Threlfall is "still shaken" by the experience and suffers "crippling anxiety and depression" which "arises in large part from the way in which (Mr Bradshaw) treated her".