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Allan Leighton, a businessman, has held several senior roles at the Post Office. | |
Leighton, 71, was once the chair of Royal Mail Holdings, and he was also the chair and non-executive director of the Post Office. He is also the former non-executive director of the Royal Mail Group. | |
Leighton was affiliated to the Royal Mail between 2001 and 2009, and to the Post Office between 2002 and 2009, according to Companies House records. | |
He was the Royal Mail’s chairman when some of the cases wrongly prosecuting sub-postmasters, because of incorrect information from the Horizon IT system, were brought to court. In the 1990s Leighton was Asda’s top boss. | |
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