The great Post office trial Radio 4
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I've been listening to this with interest, I vaguely remember hearing about it on the news at the time. It looks like the Post Office went out of its way to ruin Sub Postmaster' s lives.
An interesting link to Private Eye who seem to have highlighted it too. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_rep...
An interesting link to Private Eye who seem to have highlighted it too. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_rep...
BIRMA said:
I've been listening to this with interest, I vaguely remember hearing about it on the news at the time. It looks like the Post Office went out of its way to ruin Sub Postmaster' s lives.
An interesting link to Private Eye who seem to have highlighted it too. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_rep...
I read the article in Private Eye a few weeks ago. It beggars belief (or perhaps not) that the Post Office would (a) behave like that, (b) get away with it, and (c) the principal villains all waltz into plum positions in other organsiations without a single shred of remorse.An interesting link to Private Eye who seem to have highlighted it too. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_rep...
Halmyre said:
BIRMA said:
I've been listening to this with interest, I vaguely remember hearing about it on the news at the time. It looks like the Post Office went out of its way to ruin Sub Postmaster' s lives.
An interesting link to Private Eye who seem to have highlighted it too. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_rep...
I read the article in Private Eye a few weeks ago. It beggars belief (or perhaps not) that the Post Office would (a) behave like that, (b) get away with it, and (c) the principal villains all waltz into plum positions in other organsiations without a single shred of remorse.An interesting link to Private Eye who seem to have highlighted it too. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_rep...
Thank God there are people like Alan Bates and Private Eye to highlight humbug and hypocrisy.
Halmyre said:
Just to add to the beggaring of belief, Paula Vennells, who was CEO around the time that this happened, is an ordained C of E minister. She was awarded the CBE for services to the Post Office, and is now chairman of Imperial College Healthcare Trust.
Many moons ago I worked for the Post Office and even longer ago I used to train Subpostmasters. When the story first broke it was obvious that something was wrong with the system (I had moved on by then) some amounts that these people were alleged to have stolen were simply preposterous there was no way you could steal £500 in some of the small rural offices they simply did not have the turnover.One could hardly fail to be moved by the plight of these SubPostmasters.
It stuck me particulary, how dishonest the PO were to claim these individuals were the ONLY ones to have had problems with discrepancies with the Horizion system.
To add to their problems, their trade body was controlled by an individual who supported the PO 100%. Surely they would be paying a subscription/membership fee so could have reasonably expected the have their interests looked after?
Top marks to Nick Wallis for following this story through.
It stuck me particulary, how dishonest the PO were to claim these individuals were the ONLY ones to have had problems with discrepancies with the Horizion system.
To add to their problems, their trade body was controlled by an individual who supported the PO 100%. Surely they would be paying a subscription/membership fee so could have reasonably expected the have their interests looked after?
Top marks to Nick Wallis for following this story through.
Post Office to fight six appeals in IT scandal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58170897
It looks as if some complete retard is still calling the shots at the Post Office.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58170897
It looks as if some complete retard is still calling the shots at the Post Office.
The thread in NP&E about this seems to have disappeared so anyway: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1222319...
rodericb said:
The thread in NP&E about this seems to have disappeared so anyway: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1222319...
A mass conviction of ALL the Post office senior people implicit in this, with a long term in jail, is (morally) required. That includes one T. Benn.CypSIdders said:
robinessex said:
A mass conviction of ALL the Post office senior people implicit in this, with a long term in jail, is (morally) required. That includes one T. Benn.
What has Tony Benn got to do with the case in point?News just in, he's been dead a while!
The post office continue to be the complete b
ds they were.
Post Office criticised for holes in compensation schemes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66221054
ds they were.Post Office criticised for holes in compensation schemes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66221054
The Times article from Saturday goes into a bit more detail about what the post office have been up to -
Not disclosing documents to such an extent that the judge has imposed something that makes it a criminal offence to not disclose documents (section 21)
Post Office management had a bonus based on meeting targets during the enquiry - its work was assessed by its own lawyers so they merry all the targets. There’s now talk of theft, false accounting and fraud…
Not disclosing documents to such an extent that the judge has imposed something that makes it a criminal offence to not disclose documents (section 21)
Post Office management had a bonus based on meeting targets during the enquiry - its work was assessed by its own lawyers so they merry all the targets. There’s now talk of theft, false accounting and fraud…
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