Mr Bates vs the Post Office

[Elbow beards]

Let's pay bonuses for prosecuting people, the more you do the more you get.
What could possibly go wrong.

 

[Mike N]

Fucking hell they are going to run out of candies in Victimpool for this twat

Lol

 

[marco]

Any chance this investigator will get time

 

[Dirty Harry]

So that Scouse bell-end signed a statement, claims he didn’t write it but the lawyers did.

Why did he sign it then?

I would not put my name to anything I hadn’t read thoroughly and agreed with.

Skybkueflux posted the evidence given by Elaine Cottam the other day, I didn’t listen to it all as she bored the fuckin tits off me (soz SBF) but she said the same thing (well she said it was her signature on a lot of things but she couldn’t remember).

This sounds to me like it was planned and orchestrated by the prosecution from the outset so their evidence all lined up, were their defence (while I assume were from the same pool had it been a Police prosecution) kept in the dark about certain things ? I’d imagine the prosecution were still governed by the rules of disclosure ?
I can see one or two missing the odd point throughout all this, but I struggle to imagine every single one of them missed vital information of such evidential value, something really doesn’t add up.

 

[VOOMER]

What would you suggest? Everyone should watch News at 10? Everyone should put an hour aside to watch Question Time every Thursday? Everyone should subscribe to Private Eye? And then when people see a report on a scandal, keep following the story so that they are abreast of what's going on? And then what about tomorrow when there's another scandal? Next week when there's another?

The truth is that as you've said, your friend was affected by this so it's more personal to you. This is why you didn't need the ITV drama to refresh your memory.

What are your thoughts on the council tax controversy that affected the people of East Anglia back in 2012? Please tell me you kept abreast of what went on... it really affected the working class.

Deepcut anyone?

 

[Jimmieblue]

What would you suggest? Everyone should watch News at 10? Everyone should put an hour aside to watch Question Time every Thursday? Everyone should subscribe to Private Eye? And then when people see a report on a scandal, keep following the story so that they are abreast of what's going on? And then what about tomorrow when there's another scandal? Next week when there's another?

The truth is that as you've said, your friend was affected by this so it's more personal to you. This is why you didn't need the ITV drama to refresh your memory.

What are your thoughts on the council tax controversy that affected the people of East Anglia back in 2012? Please tell me you kept abreast of what went on... it really affected the working class.

Ok you’ve made your point, I accept it’s difficult for people to follow what’s going on and I do know nothing about East Anglia. I wouldn’t presume to advise anyone what to watch or read, but I wish people were better at getting together and forcing politicians to make things happen. Probably X is the best platform. Certainly not BBC or MSM.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

The whole “taken out of context” argument really loses its punch the seventh time you use it.

“I’m not a ****, people just keep mistaking me for a ****”

 

[VOOMER]

Any chance this investigator will get time

Perjury is a big issue in the UK court system.

 

[blueste41]

I've followed this scandal since 2003 when I heard about a conviction of a postmaster for theft, the sub postmaster talked about system issues but the article only mentioned this in passing and was generally of the opinion the postmaster was guilty, but it sparked a memory and subsequently lead me to wonder if his assertion was correct:-


In 1997 I worked for a large retailer and was on a team tasked with procuring a new EPOS system. One of the systems we were asked to evaluate was called Pathway. It was a bag of shit! The screen (badly calibrated) would often seemingly freeze but when it recovered you discovered it had accepted every key press. The system would kick you out of sub menu's/applications and often needed re-booting. In an attempt to instil some confidence the ICL rep (later they became Fujitsu) told us that the system we were looking at had been selected as a prototype and was currently being developed into a system for Post Offices, I remember thinking "god help them".

Needless to say I didn't necessarily go along with the 2003 article that the Postmaster was a thief!

Not sure I foresaw where we are today though!

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Take those legal powers away from the PO. They are not capable and certainly not to be trusted. No corporfuckeration should be able to imprison people (or engineer it) in such an easy manner. Archaic laws they operate under.