clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
Get the original magistrates who the post office lied to to preside ,that might be interesting
Post Office - Horizon scandal
- Thread starter Jensen
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Any trials are likely to be jury trials.
bobmac
Major Champion
Have all the victims been paid back yet and if so, did the money come from the tax payers?
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
No other source of funds, I believe, unless Fujitsu cough up a massive wedge.
Post Office is government owned and pretty much bankrupted by the amount of reimbursement and compensation that is due.
Vennells and Co giving back bonuses is a mere can of beans.
chellie
Tour Winner
No they haven't been paid back. One sub postmistress is owed over £38000 .
Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
On Tuesday, The Times reported that Duncan Tait CEO for Fujitsu UK from 2011 to 2014 has said, "I am appalled by the harsh treatment of the sub-postmasters and fully support the public enquiry. It would be inappropriate for me to comment ahead of this."
Too many of them using this as an excuse. They all seem to me to be hoping that others will take most of the blame.
I'm with Ian Hislop on this.
No. Answer news reporters' questions now. Just tell the truth. The truth won't jeopardise any public enquiry.
Let us see all of them being interviewed and hear what they have to say. It is in the public interest.
They should not be allowed to hide away like this. It smells of more cover-up.
Too many of them using this as an excuse. They all seem to me to be hoping that others will take most of the blame.
I'm with Ian Hislop on this.
No. Answer news reporters' questions now. Just tell the truth. The truth won't jeopardise any public enquiry.
Let us see all of them being interviewed and hear what they have to say. It is in the public interest.
They should not be allowed to hide away like this. It smells of more cover-up.
bobmac
Major Champion
It's often the case, the cover up is worse than the original crime
I don’t think there is a cover up now. The questioning in the public inquiry is very forensic and quite brutal. The head of the inquiry rarely steps in but when he does, OMG he is very direct. Best example recently was the Post Office investigator who admitted he used his wife’s qualifications to get the job…
chellie
Tour Winner
backwoodsman
Tour Winner
Disgraceful. (But I think V.D. is behind the times - it's not new news)
chellie
Tour Winner
Brings it more back into the media again though doesn't it.
Tashyboy
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It is odd how Jensen started this thread in 2022 and it kinda died a death after three pages.
MIB mentioned a few pages back about how a forensic computer programmer could rip this case to bits. Apparently they did and yet the Post Office sacked them and tried to cover it up even more.
I mentioned that I thought this could go a lot deeper than was anticipated, and the more that names “come out” the bigger this corruption case will become. With a General election around the corner. This could not of come at a worse time for the government. They have reaped what they have sewn and it’s not done by a long way.
MIB mentioned a few pages back about how a forensic computer programmer could rip this case to bits. Apparently they did and yet the Post Office sacked them and tried to cover it up even more.
I mentioned that I thought this could go a lot deeper than was anticipated, and the more that names “come out” the bigger this corruption case will become. With a General election around the corner. This could not of come at a worse time for the government. They have reaped what they have sewn and it’s not done by a long way.
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
You could well be right. Either way this will/is our version of ENRON and will be a huge blot for may years to come and continual to affect so many innocent people
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
Spot on Tashy.
The more the big bosses are grilled the more they will try to protect their arses and blow everyone up.!
Jeez, it just get worse & worse!
Just seen a piece that said the govt were instrumental in getting the PO to sack off the forensic accounting team, Second Sight, two weeks before their report was due to be published because of the head of Second Sight throwing the PO CEO under the bus in a Commons Select Committee hearing in 2015. This absolutely goes all the way up to the Minister for Postal Affairs.
Just seen a piece that said the govt were instrumental in getting the PO to sack off the forensic accounting team, Second Sight, two weeks before their report was due to be published because of the head of Second Sight throwing the PO CEO under the bus in a Commons Select Committee hearing in 2015. This absolutely goes all the way up to the Minister for Postal Affairs.
Bunkermagnet
Journeyman Pro
Newly released minutes of a Government meeting show the Govenrment NEW all about it and they AND the PO pulled Second Site off the job. This was in 2014. This was on the BBC radio this morning.
I may have said it earlier in this thread, Tash, but I don’t think this would even have needed any great degree of forensic investigation. Whether people here have any respect for the police these days, I still firmly maintain that, had an Economic Crime Unit anywhere in the UK investigated one of the early PO offences, rather than the utterly blinkered and patently unskilled PO investigators themselves, this scandal would likely never have occurred.
I say that quite simply because the truth of what was happening would probably have been identified right back at the beginning of this whole sorry saga.
I think this was mentioned on the BBC Panorama programme I saw a week or so ago.
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
Can it get any worse.?
I think it will.
Oh, I don’t doubt it.
