Post Office had evidence of second IT scandal dating back 30 years

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1. The Post Office has handed over evidence relating to dozens of alleged wrongful convictions linked to Capture, a piece of software linked to a second IT scandal, *The i Paper* can reveal.

   More potential victims of the Capture scandal have come forward following confirmation from the Government that the software – rolled out to branches in the 90s – was faulty. It has set up a new compensation scheme for victims which will open this autumn.

   While Capture victims have welcomed the compensation and official acknowledgment from the Government more than three decades after they were accused of being responsible for cash “shortfalls” at their Post Office branches, there remains concern for those who received criminal convictions and want them to be overturned.

   The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which is the only body with the power to take cases back to the courts, told *The i Paper* it is now dealing with 29 cases which pre-date Horizon and 25 have been appointed “case review managers” who are “actively investigating” their cases.

   The Post Office has been served with a legal notice requiring it to hand over all the evidence it has and the CCRC said it has so far received “some material” in 17 of these cases. In five cases the Post Office says it does not hold any evidence and in six cases it has yet to respond.

   Although the Post Office has expressed “concerns” about potential wrongful convictions that predate Horizon, it has never formally admitted that evidence used in Capture cases may have been flawed.

   It follows months of reporting by [*The i Paper* into the scandal which had been hidden for more than 30 years](https://inews.co.uk/news/definitive-proof-of-second-post-office-it-scandal-found-in-30-year-old-floppy-disks-2998256?ico=in-line_link). Former sub-postmasters and their families claim they were wrongfully pursued by the Post Office while using Capture.

   Read more on i: [https://inews.co.uk/news/post-office-evidence-second-it-scandal-dating-back-30-years-3761292](https://inews.co.uk/news/post-office-evidence-second-it-scandal-dating-back-30-years-3761292)

2. It is clear that both the post-office and government want it to end at an inquiry. Or it go on to a prosecution that will out live the majority of its victims.

3. Basically the PO had a computer system that caused big problems that they hid

   Then the replaced the computer system by getting a company to write a replacement

   which turned out to have the same sort fo problems so they his them as well

   Maybe it is just me – but when I worked in IT, if we found a problems we tended to try to fix it

   and not hide it and then not bother to check a new system just in case it had a similar system

   I am honestly totally gobsmacked by this

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