Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared

[Nearly Sane]

Good, that it's taken this long is scandalous. One can only hope that compensation happens relatively quickly

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56859357

[Udayana]

This is pretty damning...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/23/post-office-aggressive-pursuit-of-staff-ex-boss-paula-vennells

I feel quite strongly that those that accused the sub-postmasters and had them convicted without any evidence of misdeed should be held accountable for the damages and make reparations. As should the Fujitsu (ICL) staff that would have been lying about the Horizon system/software since problems were first reported on deployment in 2000.

Apart from this (huge) case .. I am quite concerned that large projects, commercial or government, have been, or could be, deployed without adequate scrutiny and and could cause long term damage - directly to those having to deal with it or environmentally.

[Nearly Sane]

This is pretty damning...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/23/post-office-aggressive-pursuit-of-staff-ex-boss-paula-vennells

I feel quite strongly that those that accused the sub-postmasters and had them convicted without any evidence of misdeed should be held accountable for the damages and make reparations. As should the Fujitsu (ICL) staff that would have been lying about the Horizon system/software since problems were first reported on deployment in 2000.

Apart from this (huge) case .. I am quite concerned that large projects, commercial or government, have been, or could be, deployed without adequate scrutiny and and could cause long term damage - directly to those having to deal with it or environmentally.

Mistakes will happen but the lying here after the mistakes are what is damning. It should increase the compensation but also should lead to criminal charges.

[Harrowby Hall]

...  but also should lead to criminal charges.

Indeed.  There must clearly have been some kind of conspiracy here. The relevant group in Royal Mail's management would have quite quickly realised that there must be a system fault as more and more sub-postmasters/postmistresses came to their attention. But they kept telling the victims that they were alone. And the decision to prosecute must have been taken at the highest levels.

At the time, apparently, the Post Office had the power to conduct its own prosecutions. Perversion of the course of justice?

[jeremyp]

Good, that it's taken this long is scandalous. One can only hope that compensation happens relatively quickly

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56859357

It's too late for some, unfortunately. I think there have been suicides as a result of this.