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Post by dogless on Jan 6, 2024 10:08:55 GMT
I have recorded the TV series dramatising the Post Office Horizon scandal, with the intention of watching it as a single piece.
However I am amazed at the new surge of publicity the programmes have generated (news stories, announcements and even PM statements).
The scandal has been running for over twenty years with close to a hundred convictions already overturned but only twenty or so people financially compensated.
A disgraceful, shameful episode, made worse by the inertia and apathy of the establishment.
Such a shame that it takes the power of the TV to awaken action.
Anybody watched the drama ?
Rog
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Post by fi on Jan 6, 2024 10:28:55 GMT
Not watched it, but the whole thing is a disgrace, in particular the lengthy delays with the compensation/appeals. I'd rather a few guilty got away with things than innocents still having to fight for justice. I was living down in Somerset three doors away from a sub post office, which was friendly and very handy for the odd pint of milk/paper ect (a typical very small corner shop of old run by an elderly couple from Pakistan who always were friendly and asked after you etc. They got caught up in the scandall of defrauding the Post Office, their daughter was allowed to take over the post office side of things, the elderly couple were hardly ever seen again, both dying a few years later (of shame according to the daughter).
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Post by Jim on Jan 6, 2024 10:47:25 GMT
Been aware of this for a few years, programme is based on a R4 investigation that has exposed the whole debacle thoroughly. It's a disgrace.
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Post by Andyberg on Jan 6, 2024 11:36:26 GMT
Unfortunately, the PO did all the investigations into these people, not the police or CPS, therefore they were always going to rule one way. As always, the taxpayer will ultimately pay for this scandal, The government should take Fujitsu to the cleaners to help pay the compensation, then take all property & possessions from the people like Paula Vennells who are guilty of the corruption, to put towards compensation. Over 600,000 now voted for her to be stripped of her CBE. 👍 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/strip-paula-vennells-of-her-cbe
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Post by on Jan 6, 2024 12:59:24 GMT
Fujitsu / ICL need dealing with and the Vennels thing needs to be given the sack. Community service work as a post office clerk for 6 months full time no pay.
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Post by Andyberg on Jan 6, 2024 13:03:09 GMT
Sunak needs to stop gaslighting and actually get the whole debacle sorted. No amount of compensation will suffice for the atrocities, but at least it might help. Vennells and her accomplices should get jail time. A sure fire vote winner if he actually made things happen!
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Post by dogless on Jan 6, 2024 13:14:58 GMT
I too have heard about the Horizon miscarriages of justice at various times in the past ... mostly on radio.
It seems a pity that it took a television drama to launch the issue into the spotlight.
Let us all hope this can now be speedily resolved to the victims satisfaction.
It certainly demonstrates the power of television above other media it seems.
Rog
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Post by on Jan 6, 2024 13:28:35 GMT
I bet there are a few people with expensive lawyers instructed and brown trousers.
Good luck to the claimants. The items that did this need to be taken out and shot. They will probably get away with it.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jan 6, 2024 17:12:03 GMT
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Post by dogless on Jan 6, 2024 17:21:29 GMT
Sadly a number committed suicide following Horizon based discrepancies.
There can be no recompense for those poor sods.
Bastards covering up.
Rog
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Post by Jim on Jan 6, 2024 17:23:22 GMT
Vennels headed up a conspiracy, 14 years in the clink. Send her down.
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Post by on Jan 6, 2024 17:29:43 GMT
There are others who need dealing with I think it might to back to ICL computers. Fujitsu may have owned it but there will have been people responsible.
worth being a bit careful about scapegoating a woman in this day and age.
Yes she should be locked up.
No she won't be locked up.
Reality is important.
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Post by dogless on Jan 6, 2024 18:20:28 GMT
Watched the first episode.
Very well performed but a hard watch.
The poor postal staff must have been driven to despair ... the feeling of isolation driven by the Post Office's repeated lie that no one else was having problems.
Rog
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jan 6, 2024 18:44:03 GMT
I watched it today. Quite awful that the Post Office must have realised there was a wider IT issue very early on but found it easier and more profitable to victimise the "little man" than address the situation.
It will be interesting to get feedback on the programme from the girls at the village Post Office next time I'm in there collecting my mail.
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Post by dogless on Jan 6, 2024 19:31:53 GMT
Did you get some work done on the Velosolux today Mr Stabby ? Rog
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