A FORMER Post Office investigator who claimed he still believed a  subpostmaster is guilty despite a court clearing him of theft came close to tears as he accused the Post Office of “deceiving” him and a “lot more people.”

Raymond Grant, who was legally forced to appear at the Horizon IT inquiry today, told the inquiry chair Sir Wyn Williams that he still considered William Quarm to be guilty of stealing money from his Post Office branch in North Uist, Scotland.

Quarm, who died aged 69 two years after being convicted of embezzlement in 2010 and ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work, was posthumously cleared in the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh last year.