Mr Bates vs the Post Office

[BringBackSwales]

The Vicar of Risley.

Brilliant

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Agreed but hopefully someone gets in there and looks at board minutes, emails, management meeting minutes etc, I am sure there’ll be some incriminating stuff if they care to look, but whether the establishment goes hard after the establishment is doubtful

I doubt there’s anything official but the bodies will definitely be buried somewhere, and you are right about the establishment up to a point. That equation isn’t limitless, if only for reasons of self preservation.

 

[BringBackSwales]

I doubt there’s anything official but the bodies will definitely be buried somewhere, and you are right about the establishment up to a point. That equation isn’t limitless, if only for reasons of self preservation.

Some of these fuckers even have butlers!

 

[VOOMER]

Fujitsu still providing Horizon IT data for use in Post Office legal actions

Tech company knew of faults in system it used to extract data on transactions as early as 2008, inquiry hears

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueste41]

Agreed but hopefully someone gets in there and looks at board minutes, emails, management meeting minutes etc, I am sure there’ll be some incriminating stuff if they care to look, but whether the establishment goes hard after the establishment is doubtful

Do you not have faith that the judicial enquiry will expose everything then?

 

[BringBackSwales]

Do you not have faith that the judicial enquiry will expose everything then?

I have no faith that the establishment will ever hold other members of the establishment to account, as I said in the previous post, but I can hope that they do

 

[Platt Lane 59]

I have no faith that the establishment will ever hold other members of the establishment to account, as I said in the previous post, but I can hope that they do

Saw the TV series and was amazed and obviously appalled at the treatment of the Postmasters (and subsequently, their staff).
But, who else can investigate this if not "the establishment" ?
I'm not trying to be clever, but who could or should be grilling the previous Post Office senior employees and Fujitsu bigwigs ?

 

[LGWIO]

Agreed but hopefully someone gets in there and looks at board minutes, emails, management meeting minutes etc, I am sure there’ll be some incriminating stuff if they care to look, but whether the establishment goes hard after the establishment is doubtful

After reading your post and those of @gordondaviesmoustache I pondered about how you could possibly go about trying to provie it....but then came back to the very way in which they sought to charge the victims in this case. That being that they had signed off their accounts as being a true record.
I started to wonder if the senior managers signed off on their accounts, their profits and their annual reports that they submitted to the governement. Surely Vennels would have to have put her name to something to explain where all the amazing profits that "she was making" for the PO were coming from. Well we now all know they were coming from the broken system.

 

[TShed]

What I can’t understand is what do the aggregated PO accounts look like. Surely an auditor would see that they were reporting more revenue than the business had actually generated e.g. they would know what Stock had been supplied and therefore sold and thereby the actual revenue , same for PO payments and deposits on its accounts for all their banking products etc etc.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

After reading your post and those of @gordondaviesmoustache I pondered about how you could possibly go about trying to provie it

Dishonesty can be quite properly inferred from conduct, so it won’t be an impossible burden to discharge.