Is there no end to Post Office injustice?

[JohnD]

Post Office told robbed postmasters to pay back money taken in raids

Postmasters tell the BBC the Post Office was ‘not concerned’ about them after they endured armed robberies.

www.bbc.co.uk

"More than a dozen sub-postmasters and postmistresses who were victims of armed robberies were told to pay back the stolen money, the BBC has heard.

One said the Post Office wanted him to pay back £2,000 that robbers had stolen, after it spent five years refusing to upgrade his security.

BBC Newsnight knows of 15 others who experienced similar treatment, nine of whom have spoken directly about it."

 

[JohnD]

There is no end.

Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Horizon whistleblower

The firm smeared postmasters in a failed bid to suppress evidence of their innocence, the BBC reveals.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[ellal]

There is no end.

Of course there is no end...

Because 'authority' must not be held responsible for it's failings...

Until it is outed by individuals/journalists who are prepared to put their heads above the parapet...

And then 'authority' uses public money to try and silence them...

But eventually the truth comes out, whether it be financial or 'viral'

 

[Murdochcat]

This awful situation will keep running and running.

At the very least interim payments must be made to the victims within 30 days

Obviously the civil service will work extremely slowly , as usual

 

[Odds]

Documents showing Post Office top bosses secretly decided in April 2014 to sack forensic accountants who had found bugs in their IT system have been obtained by the BBC.

A Post Office board sub-committee, codenamed "Project Sparrow", took the decision with the full knowledge of the government.

The Post Office declined to comment.

BBCnews.co.uk

There is no end to this perfidy - they knew. They lied.

 

[motorbiking]

There is a bit more to this...

They are not employees, as suppliers they would need to hold appropriate insurance.

But negligent attitudes to security would frustrate any claim, if that was shown to be the PO's responsibility.

 

[ellal]

There is a bit more to this...

They are not employees, as suppliers they would need to hold appropriate insurance.

But negligent attitudes to security would frustrate any claim, if that was shown to be the PO's responsibility.

Yet more cans will be kicked down the road...

Until most of the victims are dead!

 

[Odds]

There is no end.

Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Horizon whistleblower

The firm smeared postmasters in a failed bid to suppress evidence of their innocence, the BBC reveals.

www.bbc.co.uk

perhaps this is the beginning of the end...

The Post Office minister has told the BBC that those responsible for the Horizon scandal "should go to jail".

Kevin Hollinrake told a BBC Breakfast audience of sub-postmasters that "people should be prosecuted" when evidence is "established", and "people within the Post Office, possibly further afield, should go to jail".

More than 700 people were prosecuted by the Post Office between 1999 and 2015. To date, just 37 have received full and final compensation settlements.

The public inquiry will resume on Tuesday. The latest hearings will last 15 weeks, and witnesses will include key figures at the heart of the scandal - including Mr Bates and former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells.


BBCnews.com

 

[Brigadier]

"people within the Post Office, possibly further afield, should go to jail".

Include the bastard lawyers as well.

 

[Odds]

Alan Bates has taken his oath and is now giving evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry.

You can watch it here: @the Grunadia

Today’s session began with lead consul KC Beer issuing a lengthy criticism of the Post Office for its repeated late discloure of documents to the inquiry, which he said had been “highly disruptive”.

Inquiry chair Wyn Williams said he was determined to continue the hearings on the present timetable, despite the difficulty of the Post Office failing to produce documents in a timely fashion, because the alternative, an adjournment, would be worse. He said he believed the inquiry should not last a day longer than necessary,

 

[ellal]

The Post Office minister has told the BBC that those responsible for the Horizon scandal "should go to jail".

Kevin Hollinrake told a BBC Breakfast audience of sub-postmasters that "people should be prosecuted" when evidence is "established", and "people within the Post Office, possibly further afield, should go to jail".

A statement that will be pounced upon by anyone (who in the unlikely event gets charged with anything), as 'prejudicing a fair trial'...

A slip of the tongue, or a deliberate action?

 

[Brigadier]

A statement that will be pounced upon by anyone (who in the unlikely event gets charged with anything), as 'prejudicing a fair trial'...

A slip of the tongue, or a deliberate action?

It's a comment on the punishment, not on the guilt.

 

[Brigadier]

Include the bastard lawyers as well.

Some named lawyers are coming out very badly in the inquiry, right now.

 

[Brigadier]

One lawyer put in an email that "Mr Bates is loose with the truth".............

That same lawyer later puts in an email, words to the effect of "do it verbally; no paper trail that way".

FML................

 

[ellal]

It's a comment on the punishment, not on the guilt.

A comment by the Post Office minister...

Which could be considered to prejudice a trial because of the high profile, and the fact that most jurors would have heard of his opinion...