Former Post Office investigator insists cleared Horizon IT victim was guilty | Post Office Horizon scandal

A former Post Office investigator has maintained that a branch owner-operator who had his conviction for embezzlement overturned last year was guilty.

Raymond Grant, an investigator involved in the prosecution of the post office operator William Quarm who died in 2012 not knowing he would eventually be cleared years later, had to be legally forced to appear to give testimony at the public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal.

He told the inquiry on Wednesday he had a “clash of priorities” and wanted to focus on his current job at the Salvation Army.

Grant, a programme manager at the…