Mr Bates V's the Post Office

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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It's also outrageous that Fujitsu (who made the dodgy Horizon software then lied about it) have been awarded hundreds of millions of pounds worth of government contracts since the scandal broke.

[light up the darkness]

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I just read an article that asked how has Adam Crozier avoided the spotlight being shone on him during the recent programme on the subject as he was head of the Royal Mail at the time.

Turns out he is now head of the company that made/ commissioned the series

[stevo]

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Just signed having watched the final episode. Now on 802,000+

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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It gets worse

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/07/post-office-suspected-of-more-wrongful-prosecutions-of-operators-over-horizon

[BLUETIT]

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It gets worse

https://www.theguardian.com/business...s-over-horizon

Unfortunately can’t open this unless I join

[Taffy Blue in Berkshire]

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signed 1,026,271

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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Unfortunately can’t open this unless I join

Post Office suspected of more injustices over Horizon pilot scheme
Exclusive: software believed to have resulted in prosecutions even before full system rollout in 1999

The Post Office is suspected of wrongly prosecuting dozens more operators who took part in a pilot scheme of the faulty Horizon system, the Guardian has been told.

Amid growing anger over the treatment of postmasters whose lives have been ruined in the scandal, Whitehall sources have confirmed that a precursor scheme was rolled out in 1995 and 1996 to hundreds of branches in north-east England.

After taking part in the pilot, at least two branch managers were prosecuted despite protesting that there was a glitch in the system, a senior Labour MP has claimed.

The development comes after a national outcry over the treatment of post office operators between 1999 and 2015 after faulty Fujitsu software made it appear as though money was missing from their outlets.

[the other bob wilson]

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That petition reaching one million signatures will have enormous symbolic value and an awful lot of people with a normal set of values would bow to the pressure. However, if she's anything like the way she was portrayed in last week's drama, she doesn't have a normal set of values - I'm not sure whether she was genuinely crooked or she just couldn't see what the Post Office was doing wrong.

[poc]

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she did seem to be institutionalised

[light up the darkness]

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she needs to be institutionalised

FTFY

[BLUETIT]

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she did seem to be institutionalised

She should be incarcerated, the hypocritical cow

[PontBlue]

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That petition reaching one million signatures will have enormous symbolic value and an awful lot of people with a normal set of values would bow to the pressure. However, if she's anything like the way she was portrayed in last week's drama, she doesn't have a normal set of values - I'm not sure whether she was genuinely crooked or she just couldn't see what the Post Office was doing wrong.

I think it was initially incompetence but when the post office decided to carry on prosecuting once they knew Fujitsu had remote access that becomes corruption in my eyes. And to think she was a Priest.

[ninian opinian]

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Wait till people find out that Fujitsu sued the NHS for £700 million in 2014 after its IT contract was cancelled due to it being a "train wreck".

[Cyclops]

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Watched the four episodes yesterday and was appalled by the story - of which I was aware.
The flashing Horizon router lights were particularly sinister.

One thing I don't understand is why the postmasters didn't run a manual audit for 24 hours and compare it to Horizon's figures.

All they needed was an opening balance (ie £0.00), a note of incomings and outgoings (ie stamps - £1.00) and a closing balance. That could then have been checked against the actual cash for accuracy.
Assuming everything balanced, that would have immediately proved there was a problem with the computer program.