Mr Bates vs the Post Office

Prestwich_Blue said:
I'm currently listening to the BBC podcasts on the affair and one of the independent investigators said the same thing.

You have a level of fraud/theft which presumably is low, then introduce a new system which sees suspected theft/fraud reach a significantly higher level. You'd think someone might make the connection.

The podcast says that when the suspicion that Horizon WAS the problem finally dawned on the Post Office, instead of holding their hands up, they actually doubled down and started dragging their heels, witholding documents and generally reducing cooperation. Anyone who knowingly took part in that should be going to jail.

They've also effectively stolen money off those sub-postmasters who they forced to repay non-existent shortfalls. They're no better than scammers, who would certainly go to prison if caught and convicted.
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On Five Live yesterday it was stated that the number of prosecutions of SPs in the year before Horizon was ten. The year after it was introduced it was over 100.

Any reasonable person stepping back and evaluating that would have had cause to question the overarching reason behind it. Those numbers simply did not make any sense in relation to people of previous good character who had been heavily vetted for their roles in the organisation.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
On Five Live yesterday it was stated that the number of prosecutions of SPs in the year before Horizon was ten. The year after it was introduced it was over 100.

Any reasonable person stepping back and evaluating that would have had cause to question the overarching reason behind it. Those numbers simply did not make any sense in relation to people of previous good character who had been heavily vetted for their roles in the organisation.
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As a software engineer for 34 years, I find it ludicrous that the police, the government and the CPS have so much faith in the fact that a computer system is infallible that they’d rather convict 100s of innocent people than consider the obvious explanation.

It beggars belief.

I notice that Fujitsu execs are up before the inquiry next week, so it will be interesting to see how they defend their system and their actions.
 
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