Ditto, maths, 16 and about 1977.
More Skool Daze:
I attacked a PE teacher for taking the piss out of my surname, and gave a decent enough account of myself, despite my fighting technique being, essentially, "grab opponent in bearhug, and throw both of us to floor". He recovered well. There were No Consequences.More Skool Daze:
I'd forgotten all this, it was so long ago, but I was pretty much the destroyer god when it came to our teachers: The class teacher who punched me at junior school - dead within 5 years. Another one at secondary school, who tried to get me to grass the rest of the lads up who had been involved in a minor revolt - dead within 12 months. Just thought I'd let you all know in case you have any plans to be less than supportive with regard to my posts.
Oh, yes, back to wor Paula...
There is no money that will adequately make up for this. No apology, nothing imaginable, will remove the hurt caused to these people by the Post Office. No government good intentions will remove the stains on their character and damage done to people and their families.
FWIW (not much) I suggested a few possible consequences to disincentivise these cunts on YouTube comment threads. Jocular comments involving lampposts and guillotines. Because legit legal avenues don't seem to be working. They all got deleted and fast. I really did frame them in humorous ways but you can't even make jokes about that. Even if I wasn't really joking.
I'm not sure it's a "cost of doing business" to them - I suspect that Vennells is genuinely hating every moment of this (and bloody rightly so). I don't think she's such a good actor that she can be putting it on, and her manner is more misery than contrition.
CPS would have to make the decision that charging her would be in the public interest. Then she's got to be convicted. Then the sentence has to be appropriate (ie., custodial).
She admitted that it was her decision to remove from the prospectus issued prior to floating Royal Mail, any reference to Horizon bugs, and when she succeeded in getting the reference removed, she emailed a colleague, and said "I've earned my keep on this one".I just wrote out some pointless speculation about what any charges might be, but found this which says it better (and that we'll be waiting at least 2 years to find out).
Post Office scandal: Metropolitan Police says it will take at least two years to decide on criminal charges
A national investigation will only start late next year at the earliest, and will involve trawling through "tens of millions of documents", meaning any decision on charges "won't be quick".news.sky.com
And this suggests Warwick Tatford (barrister) and Gareth Jenkins are the ones most in the firing line. Is Jenkins the one who has done a runner?
'Damaging' testimony withheld from pregnant postmistress trial
A draft report that may have undermined the prosecution case was changed, documents seen by the BBC show.www.bbc.co.uk
Well, I agree with you, of course about her being at the core of it and deserving prison. But is the stuff underlined actually illegal? It looks like very dodgy corporate behaviour, whereas the actual decisions about prosecutions and not revealing the bugs are the issues likely to interest the police/cps.
In her case (with the priest stuff) you're probably right. But I do think that level of cynicism does exist.
I'm pretty sure i's a criminal offence to tell porkies or to omit to disclose required information in a prospectus. I'm also fairly certain the information she chose to omit would fall into that category.
And worse, it's not a crime against insignificant "little people" like sub-postmasters and mistresses. It's an offence against CAPITAL.
I reckon you're right, and I seriously hope the judge she faces bought shares in the Post Office.
