SCOTLAND’S top legal officer will address Parliament on the Post Office Horizon scandal, the Crown Office has announced.

In a statement, the Crown Office said the Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain would make a statement to Parliament and take questions from MSPs “at the earliest possible opportunity.”

Speaking in Parliament, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar accused Post Office employees of acting like “the mob” by “going door to door in Scotland to threaten and extort money from subpostmasters” and called on the Lord Advocate to lay out a timeline of the Crown Office’s understanding.

It is thought that as many as 100 subpostmasters were prosecuted in Scotland as a result of the corrupted Horizon system.

First Minister Humza Yousaf told MSPs at First Minister’s Questions on Thursday: “Scottish prosecutors were told in September 2013 to treat cases reported by the Post Office in regard to the facts and circumstances and evidence which did not rely upon Horizon.

“Then of course no cases were prosecuted from 2015 where the sufficiency of evidence was dependent on the evidence from the Horizon system.”

Mr Yousaf reiterated his commitment to backing Britain-wide legislative action to quash convictions and deliver restitution to victims of the scandal.