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Post Office workers win High Court ruling over faulty IT system that left them bankrupt and in prison
Private Eye have done really good work on exposing this over the years. Disgusting treatment of subpostmasters by Post Office.
Among the comments from our own Peter Dow quoted here in case they remove it:
Go Peter, I miss his posts, not seen him for ages
Post Office workers win High Court ruling over faulty IT system that left them bankrupt and in prison
Hundreds of former Post Office workers who claimed a faulty IT system led to some of them being prosecuted and others going bankrupt due to cash shortfalls have been "vindicated" after a High Court ruling in their favour.
His [judge's] ruling that there was a “material risk” that shortfalls in Post Office branch accounts were caused by Horizon is a major step in workers’ attempts to have convictions for fraud and theft overturned.
There was standing room only in the court as more than 100 of the claimants attended the hearing, some of whom said they had been left suicidal by the fiasco.
Private Eye have done really good work on exposing this over the years. Disgusting treatment of subpostmasters by Post Office.
Among the comments from our own Peter Dow quoted here in case they remove it:
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In 1994 I was fined then jailed for doing my duty to prevent fraud. If they had listened to me then Mr Chhokar would be alive today. See - BBC: "Ronnie Coulter convicted of 1998 Chhokar murder after second trial" The Chhokar murder arose from an argument over a stolen giro-cheque, which could only have value to any thief because of the incompetent policy of the Post Office which was in the 1990s to cash giro-cheques to the bearer WITHOUT ASKING FOR IDENTIFICATION if the amount of the cheque was under £100. In other words, the victim would be ALIVE today if the Giro-cheque payment system at the Post Office was competently managed to prevent fraud. So the Post Office insisting on their right to make fraudulent payments has cost a man his life. So the police and prosecutors insisting on arresting, prosecuting, convicting, fining and jailing someone (that would be me in 1994) who protests this mismanagement of the Post Office instead of arresting and prosecuting Post Office management has cost a man his life. So the pro-fraud police state jailed me and it cost a man his life.
The Post Office paid stolen giro-cheques (up to £100) without demanding I.D., rewarding thieves and robbers, who would raid communal mailboxes, on a regular basis, sometimes coming into violent conflict with residents expecting their giros. In 1994, I was fined then jailed for doing my duty to prevent such fraud at Post Offices when I protested at my local post office, to blow the whistle on the failure of the Post Office to prevent fraud and other crimes arising. Surjit Singh Chhokar was stabbed to death in North Lanarkshire in 1998 in a fight which arose over a stolen giro-cheque. If they had listened to me then Mr Chhokar would be alive today because it was the Post Office’s slack fraud control which encouraged thieves to steal giro-cheques and to get into conflicts with those to whom the giro was intended. Not only was the Post Office to blame but the government which both sanctioned the Post Office mismanagement but also unjustly criminalised those like me who were trying to blow the whistle on the Post Office encouraging fraud and crime. This highlighted something rotten with the whole kingdom, the incompetent way in which local police and courts actually encourage crime and insist that social activists can do nothing about crime.
So there should in addition now be a conviction of the government ministers and head of state in the 1990s that allowed the post office to encourage fraud.
Go Peter, I miss his posts, not seen him for ages