Post Office Scandal

(13-01-2024 09:40 )Charlemagne Wrote:  After reading what happened it's obvious that problems with the Horizon system were known to the management and also to their investigating officers.

And what have the Post Office been doing over the past few months, they tried to get the scripts altered for the drama.

And we know why now both with what this RM investigator has said & this breaking news about unpaid tax

One if the investigations Bradshaw did, involved a sub - postmistress who said sometrhing about not opening upon time and he said something like "Get up earlier!". when he was questioned if this was standard for him to say anything about something like he said "No" & I believe he had lawyers too! I am sure once or twice he tried to shift blame.

Not only that, there was mention of two sub postmasters in Scotland only being acquitted this week.

(13-01-2024 16:11 )lovebabes56 Wrote:  Not only that, there was mention of two sub postmasters in Scotland only being acquitted this week.

The Post Office can't take out private prosecutions up here. The prosecutions were conducted by the Procurator Fiscal.

There's a lot of questions being asked as to why prosecutions were still taking place after the horizon problems came to light.
The Lord Advocate has been summoned to Parliament.

From the Sunday Times re Vennells and her CBE.

Quote:A source suggested Vennells, a part-time priest who had an unremarkable business career until she ran the Post Office from 2012 to 2019, was being rewarded by the government for taking a tough approach to controlling costs, including by refusing to acknowledge wrongdoing in its pursuit of sub-postmasters.

Until 2015, the Post Office continued to bring private prosecutions over cash shortfalls at branches that were actually caused by glitches in an IT system supplied by the Japanese giant Fujitsu. "This was her reward for bending her conscience and holding the line," the source claimed. A second source, a senior civil servant at the time, recalled that there had been a view among some in government that Vennells had "inherited" the Horizon scandal and was "clearing up rather than being the cause".

Newsnight's Ben Chu takes a look at how embedded Fujitsu is in the UK public sector

Don't they also make air conditioning units for businesses?

Humza wants the impending Westminster legislation to exonerate the Subpostmasters, en masse, to cover Scotland as well.

Criminal Justice is a fully devolved matter. Sort it out yourself Mr 'I want independence'

^Devolved criminal Justice seems to be a bit too busy with his Brother In Law. That's his actual Brother In Law the drug dealer and not the pretend one who Mr & Mrs Humza were trying to get evacuated from Gaza

(20-01-2024 13:35 )Tumble_Drier Wrote:  ^Devolved criminal Justice seems to be a bit too busy with his Brother In Law. That's his actual Brother In Law the drug dealer and not the pretend one who Mr & Mrs Humza were trying to get evacuated from Gaza

Implicated in a death now as well...

the Horizon Scandal inquiry reopens with Alan Bates answering questions