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The Great British Post Office Scandal Explained
How did UK Post Office workers end up wrongly imprisoned for fraud?
Public fury over a scandal which has ruined the lives of hundreds of British postal workers has reignited after a TV drama based on the affair was broadcast in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the new year.
Faulty computer software resulted in some 230 post office workers being imprisoned on false charges of theft and fraud. Thousands of others were accused of similar misdeeds.
Mr Bates vs the Post Office: The Real Story chronicled sub-postmaster Alan Batesās legal battle against the Post Office, which had falsely accused him and some 3,500 others of defrauding the UKās postal service… More
It Took a TV Show to Bring Justice in UK Post Office Scandal
- Fujitsu also under pressure over its flawed Horizon software
- Government moves to exonerate sub-postmasters amid outrage
Seema Misra was pregnant when she was wrongfully found guilty of stealing from the Post Office she ran in a small town south-west of London. Seven months later, including four spent in jail, she gave birth in the hospital wearing an ankle tag used to monitor released criminals.
Misra is among the victims of arguably the biggest scandal in British legal history. Between 2000 and 2014 the Post Office, the taxpayer-owned provider of unfashionable services that still make an economy tick ā think postage stamps and pension payments ā accused thousands of its storekeepers of stealing. It secured more than 900 convictions of sub-postmasters, as they are known. Most lost their businesses, many were bankrupted. At least four died by suicide… More
British Post Office Scandal
The British Post Office scandal is a miscarriage of justice which, between 1999 and 2015, saw over 900 subpostmasters prosecuted for theft, false accounting, and fraud for shortfalls at their branches when these shortfalls were in fact due to errors of the Post Office’s Horizon accounting software.
While some subpostmasters almost immediately noticed the new system reporting false shortfalls, sometimes for thousands of pounds, The Post Office insisted that the system was robust and, when shortfalls occurred, prosecuted the subpostmasters or forced them to make up the amount. The impact of court cases, criminal convictions, imprisonment, loss of livelihood and homes, debt and bankruptcy took a heavy toll on victims and their families, leading to stress, illness, divorce and, in at least four cases, suicide. In May 2009, Computer Weekly broke the story about problems with Horizon software and in September 2009 subpostmaster Alan Bates set up the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance (JFSA).
In 2012, as a result of pressure from campaigners and Members of Parliament, the Post Office appointed forensic accountants Second Sight to conduct an investigation into Horizon. The investigators concluded that Horizon contained faults that could result in accounting discrepancies, but the Post Office insisted that there were no systemic problems with the software. In 2017, a group of 555 subpostmasters led by Bates brought a group action in the High Court against the Post Office. After the judge ruled in November 2019 that Horizon contained bugs, errors and defects, the Post Office agreed to settle out of court for Ā£58 million, which left the petitioning subpostmasters with about Ā£20,000 each after legal costs. The government later agreed to supplement their awards. In February of 2020 the prime minister said that the government would establish an inquiry into the scandal. Courts began to quash convictions from December 2020.
As of January 2024, most of those convicted are still waiting to have their conviction reviewed, the public inquiry is ongoing, and the Metropolitan Police is investigating the Post Office for potential fraud offences.
A four-part television drama, Mr Bates vs the Post Office, was broadcast on ITV in January 2024, after which the scandal became a major news story and political issue. In January 2024, prime minister Rishi Sunak announced new legislation to exonerate wrongly-convicted subpostmasters.
Horizon IT system
The Horizon accounting system was developed by Ā ICL Pathway, owned by the Japanese company Fujitsu. In 1999, the Post Office started to roll out the new software to its branches and sub-post offices, the latter managed by subpostmasters on a self-employed basis under contracts with the Post Office.
More… Problems with the software
Meanwhile,
Fujitsuās Silence Is Making a Tech Scandal Worse
Japanese firms tend to go quiet when faced with bad news like the UKās post office scandal. The company should face the music.
And,
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Yes, this new Harry Potter film will certainly put Emma right back in her wheelhouse promoting Satanism while being a tremendous whoreā¦
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