Post Office plotted to raid sub-postmasters’ pensions, inquiry hears

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1. Opinion: As usual, we see that when profit is on the line, a company will stop at nothing to get it. This really does show in my opinion why private prosecutions should be ended.

   That said, this is only being seen as unacceptable because the postmasters were found innocent. We really need to reflect on how we treat criminals in this country because if they were still fairly presumed guilty, you’d have people saying this is reasonable and they should be made to sell their kidneys while we’re at it

2. Who were the IT people involved ? And, were they members of any Professional organization such as the BCS ?

3. Some people really, really need to go to jail for this.

4. This person came over VERY badly yesterday,. Self important unpleasant person who started off prevaricatimg which decended into outright lying

5. I agree this is criminal but from what I’ve seen so far of the enquiry, the senior bosses are all successfully fending off the blame to lower management. So I’m assuming that prosecuting them will be difficult and its those at the lower levels they will go after.

6. As more and more info comes out.

   Someone needs to spend serious time in a cell.

7. No one from the Post Office is going to go to prison, it’s a scandal.

   So long as shareholders made a profit, the system doesn’t care.

8. Another aspect to this story which bothers me, is the complete failure of the courts’ processes to critically examine the accusations being made. It seems that The Post Office did not even provide full lists of the transactions that were recorded, so there was no possibility of establishing where the discrepancies lay. It was just asserted that the sum total cash held by the branch should be a certain amount, but was short.

   There is a general policy that computer evidence is considered correct in court. The fact that this was the point of dispute should have lead to the court requiring disclosure of all the records held, and then the defence could have picked them apart.

9. Jail, jail until the day they drop dead in the cell. The whole board should never see the light of day again

10. Its not a matter of seeing through the BS. The evidence of their knowledge of or participation in a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice is, so far, weak.

    I want to see them get justice but so far, objectively, the evidence tying the senior management into this is weak.

11. That see you next Tuesday Philip Green raided pensions to enrich himself.