The Horizon IT Inquiry has now broken for lunch.

Let’s look back at some of the key moments from Stephen Bradshaw’s evidence on Thursday morning.

• Investigators ‘behaved like Mafia gangsters’

Investigators working on behalf of the Post Office were described as “behaving like Mafia gangsters”, the Horizon IT public inquiry has heard.

Sub-postmistress Jacqueline McDonald claimed she was “bullied” by Stephen Bradshaw during an interview over an alleged shortfall at her branch in Broughton, Lancashire after he accused her of telling him a “pack of lies”.

In the statement, she said: “Shortly after I had been audited and my post office was taken away from me, I read an article in a magazine which highlighted other people who have suffered or are about to suffer the same hell I was going through. I then got in touch with the writer of the article who then put me in touch with the JFSA (Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance).

“This was a very big surprise to me as I was led to believe by the investigator for the POL Stephen Bradshaw that I was the only one in this position and this has never happened before.”

• Post Office chiefs didn’t relay Horizon problems

Mr Bradshaw said he was not made aware of any problems “from the top” about the faulty Horizon IT software, the public inquiry heard.

At the beginning of his evidence, inquiry counsel Julian Blake asked him: “Do you think that you have given enough thought over the past 20 years as to whether you may have been involved in what has been described as one of the largest miscarriages of justice in British history?”

Mr Bradshaw replied: “It would appear that through not being given any knowledge from top downwards that if any bugs, errors or defects were there it’s not been cascaded down from Fujitsu, the Post Office board down to our level as the investigations manager.

“I had no reason to suspect at the time that there was anything wrong with the Horizon system because we’d not been told. The investigations were done correctly.”

• Bonuses not dependent on prosecutions

Mr Bradshaw refuted the claim that Post Office investigators would get paid more depending on the number of successful prosecutions they had.

He told the inquiry: “I’m paid whether one case is done, one thousand cases, or no cases.”

He said the security team employees were not paid bonuses based on prosecutions, but on their performance in the job.

The inquiry previously heard that Post Office investigators were awarded bonuses based on their successful prosecutions and the amount of monies they were able to recover.