Post Office enquiry
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The BBC's live reporting has been and is excellent on this topic - it's here :-
I'll wager that Vennels won't make the stand, instead claiming illness: it's impossible that conclude anything other that she lied to everybody and anybody having known about the issues for year.
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I'll wager that Vennels won't make the stand, instead claiming illness: it's impossible that conclude anything other that she lied to everybody and anybody having known about the issues for year.
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The bstards are lying through their teeth, both Crozier and the other managing director clown who said the SPMs had their hands in the till, both said that they'd no idea that the PO could self prosecute. I mean WTAF?
The head of a company for ten years didn't know the company he headed could self prosecute. he must think people's head's button up the back.
I've nothing to do with the PO, never worked for them, have no relatives who has worked for them and yet I know they can self prosecute and have done since I was a wee boy.
The head of a company for ten years didn't know the company he headed could self prosecute. he must think people's head's button up the back.
I've nothing to do with the PO, never worked for them, have no relatives who has worked for them and yet I know they can self prosecute and have done since I was a wee boy.
I always thought the basic concept that no one in Fujitsu or the P O apart from the branch manager could access or edit the accounts had to be implausible.
What would happen if the manager was run over and hadn't made a note of his password?
Following on from that where did the missing funds go? Just assuming they were swallowed up in the mass cash flow sounds weak.
I wonder if some of those mild confessions and apologies by many involved mask a deeper guilt.
What would happen if the manager was run over and hadn't made a note of his password?
Following on from that where did the missing funds go? Just assuming they were swallowed up in the mass cash flow sounds weak.
I wonder if some of those mild confessions and apologies by many involved mask a deeper guilt.
Jim Audiomisc
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I've managed to watch some of this via it being on Freeview's BBC 'news' channel. But, the sessions are long and I keep having to leave it to get other things done. Annoyingly, the video seems not to be available via the BBC's shedule pages for the channel and time!
Anyone know where trhe videos can be downloaded from without having to 'join' something? i.e. as per iPlayer for other BBC items.
They knew from 2003 that Fujitsu could access the system remotely there was a Fujitsu whistle blower who eventually appeared in court in 2018 and confirmed this.
The missing funds? There were no missing funds, they essentially stole people's houses and assets when they had obtained a 'confession' of fund misappropriation or false accounting, even better if there was a conviction, plus the investigators received a 'bonus' as part of the asset recovery process ie they were incentivised to prosecute people.
Jim Audiomisc
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FWIW I've been following this for many years via Private Eye. What is amazing is how the rest of the media largely ignored it for decades. Took an ITV drama series to make them wake up! (OK, BBC R4 did run some progs on it, but seemingly no-one much listened to them as no outburst of public/MP anger then.)
There's a brilliant podcast on BBC sounds it's by the journalist Nick Wallis, he became involved when the lady postmaster was sent to prison when she was seven months pregnant, her husband ran a taxi firm and had left a business card at the newspaper that the guy worked at at the time, the journalist eventually phoned the guy up and asked him if he had any 'juicy' local info he could let him have and that's when the husband told him about his wife being convicted, think this was back in 2010.
BBC Sounds - The Great Post Office Trial - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of The Great Post Office Trial on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk
Investigating the Post Office Scandal – the podcast
Rebecca Thomson and Nick Wallis cover the ongoing Post Office Horizon IT scandal. This podcast is entirely funded by donation, but it is free to listen to, either by streaming through your browser …
www.postofficescandal.uk
Jubal
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Jim Audiomisc
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There's a brilliant podcast on BBC sounds it's by the journalist Nick Wallis, he became involved when the lady postmaster was sent to prison when she was seven months pregnant, her husband ran a taxi firm and had left a business card at the newspaper that the guy worked at at the time, the journalist eventually phoned the guy up and asked him if he had any 'juicy' local info he could let him have and that's when the husband told him about his wife being convicted, think this was back in 2010.
BBC Sounds - The Great Post Office Trial - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of The Great Post Office Trial on BBC Sounds
Investigating the Post Office Scandal – the podcast
Rebecca Thomson and Nick Wallis cover the ongoing Post Office Horizon IT scandal. This podcast is entirely funded by donation, but it is free to listen to, either by streaming through your browser …
Thanks. I have the BBC progs. I'll try the 'audioboom' podcasts, they look interesting.
However I was really interested by the inquiry streams the BBC showed on 'Freeview' but seem not to have available via iPlayer! Fascinatng to see the culprits at PO trying to duck and dive when questioned. But many hours of it, and I couldn't watch it all live, alas!
Jim Audiomisc
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I suspected u-toob. However I've not currently got the current downloader prog working and don't want to use their method. Must try to sort that out as there are also loads of 'V-Discs' I still want to get and hear!
les24preludes
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You hope for at least one of them to say "in view of the appalling wrong that has been carried out against innocent people I am now going to tell this enquiry the whole truth of what I know down to the last detail. I owe it to them".
But this only happens in films....
On the same subject, a friend of mine was a management consultant who at one time had a contract to work with senior Post Office staff. He terminated it saying "they were impossible to work with".
