HORIZON scandal campaigner Alan Bates is demanding the government be held “responsible” for bankrolling hundreds of wrongful prosecutions of subpostmasters.

The lead campaigner blasted Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey for palming off concerns raised by victims of the Post Office’s Horizon IT system’s false accounting when he was postal minister in the Con-Dem coalition.

Mr Bates told the inquiry into the scandal today that ministers were “pumping huge amounts of money into Post Office year after year so they need to be held responsible.”