Its bad enough nobody has gone down for what they have done to these people.
Had their/their families lives turned upside down, some have wrongly been imprisoned and some have died in the years which have passed.. the post office should be paying the legal costs, calling it a “mistake” is too generous.
This story annoys me more than any other news story I’ve read. It’s absolutely abhorrent to me that the post office can continue with the prosecutions while knowing full well that the evidence is flawed
Just imagine that for a second. They could have just fired them and brushed their bs evidence under the rug. Instead they knowingly made the choice to destroy these people’s lives because they had to protect their fucking software and push the narrative that the software is never wrong.
It’s the worst miscarriage of justice I’ve ever heard. Every single person who knew there were issues with the software but pushed for convictions regardless (or because of) should be burning in hell right now.
Our wonderful Press and media about this for YEARS (because *Private Eye* repeatedly reported it).
But couldn’t be bothered reporting it and holding people to account.
I’m not using my main account for obvious reasons, but in 2015 I was hired to a very senior position at the Post Office (won’t say what position) just before the admission that maybe there may have been a miscarriage of justice. On my first day I was called into a confidential meeting and a board member briefed me that they knew some post masters were currently in jail due to this IT system error. What horrified me was they said they knew about the error for a while, and only now the issue was about to be made public. It was the fact it was going public that was the issue for them. They were concerned about the reputation and revenue of the post office, and I was told I needed to work to help maintain the credibility of the organisation for our 70,000 employees. Absolutely no mention of any concern for the people languishing in prison, it was almost as if they were just hugely inconvenient.
I left after a few months. Still makes me feel sick to think about it to this today.
I remember how people were heartbroken that the lovely old french guy who ran the local post office and was adored by everyone had “been done for fraud” and disappeared. We couldn’t believe it and we never should have. It must have absolutely destroyed him.
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Its bad enough nobody has gone down for what they have done to these people.
Had their/their families lives turned upside down, some have wrongly been imprisoned and some have died in the years which have passed.. the post office should be paying the legal costs, calling it a “mistake” is too generous.
Highly recommend the Panorama episode that covered this – https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0016t20/panorama-the-post-office-scandal
It’s mental how no-one has been held responsible for it
And what do you do when you get found out overseeing the “biggest miscarriage of justice in British history”…?
Drumroll………… YES! You get a cushy roll at The Cabinet Office!
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/paula-vennells
This story annoys me more than any other news story I’ve read. It’s absolutely abhorrent to me that the post office can continue with the prosecutions while knowing full well that the evidence is flawed
Just imagine that for a second. They could have just fired them and brushed their bs evidence under the rug. Instead they knowingly made the choice to destroy these people’s lives because they had to protect their fucking software and push the narrative that the software is never wrong.
It’s the worst miscarriage of justice I’ve ever heard. Every single person who knew there were issues with the software but pushed for convictions regardless (or because of) should be burning in hell right now.
Our wonderful Press and media about this for YEARS (because *Private Eye* repeatedly reported it).
But couldn’t be bothered reporting it and holding people to account.
I’m not using my main account for obvious reasons, but in 2015 I was hired to a very senior position at the Post Office (won’t say what position) just before the admission that maybe there may have been a miscarriage of justice. On my first day I was called into a confidential meeting and a board member briefed me that they knew some post masters were currently in jail due to this IT system error. What horrified me was they said they knew about the error for a while, and only now the issue was about to be made public. It was the fact it was going public that was the issue for them. They were concerned about the reputation and revenue of the post office, and I was told I needed to work to help maintain the credibility of the organisation for our 70,000 employees. Absolutely no mention of any concern for the people languishing in prison, it was almost as if they were just hugely inconvenient.
I left after a few months. Still makes me feel sick to think about it to this today.
I remember how people were heartbroken that the lovely old french guy who ran the local post office and was adored by everyone had “been done for fraud” and disappeared. We couldn’t believe it and we never should have. It must have absolutely destroyed him.