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"It's disgusting, two decades on, we're finding new documents," says wrongly-convicted former subpostmaster Lee Castleton. He spoke out after Channel 4 News obtained a secret 2006 contract between the Post Office and Fujitsu which, despite decades of denial, shows the organisations were able to centrally alter subpostmaster accounts. The... show more

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Keith10 个月前

So the usual playbook: it's "too early" to comment - can't comment now there's an inquiry! - this is all water under the bridge it's too late to comment now meanwhile no justice and nobody held accountable

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Mark Cosovich10 个月前

We've secured our massive pensions and bonuses, What's not to like ?

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KernowbysVyken10 个月前

Where’s @EdwardJDavey to opine on this? He is a disgrace and should be stripped of his knighthood

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Dean Smith10 个月前

As a decent, hard working, law abiding citizen I am not ashamed to say I wish bad things on everyone involved in this vile murderous cover up, also see VIP Lane thieves & killers Water Company CEOs thieves & mass polluters I don’t even feel bad using the word Scum!!!

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Bill Brennan10 个月前

All the postmasters were led to believe they were the only ones having accountancy issues, if they had been able to go online and tell others of their troubles the truth could have came out decades ago.

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RMH10 个月前

If Channel 4 found the contract how did others not find it?

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Jacdavies10 个月前

Can’t let this go . They have to be brought to justice- it’s not just about compensation for the lost masters it’s about those responsible being held to account.

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Janet10 个月前

Utterly damning again & again. The sub postmasters injustices just keep stacking up. Having to relive this over & over again as more proof is uncovered about the cover up.

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Colin Stevens10 个月前

Now lock them all up - starting with Vennells! 😡

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Phil Thorne10 个月前

Isn’t this revealing perjury?

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David Fellowes10 个月前

This isn’t going to go away until full and fair restitution is awarded to the victims and the families, and the full force of the law imposed on the wrong doers. Close the Post Office and ban Fujitsu from the UK is but a minimum.

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Joh Taylor10 个月前

It beggars belief that the PO thought this might not come to light, for me it proves criminality re wrongful prosecutions and perjury under oath at the inquiry.

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pafaa_sofap10 个月前

They can keep apologising. They won't be believed until they stop prevaricating and fighting over the deserved compensation for the PO victims and their families.

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Dave Peterson Ⓥ 🇨🇦10 个月前

@fujitsu_uk you cowards. I once had one of your laptops and loved it. Now I feel ashamed to have ever done business with an organization that is apparently willing to treat people like rubbish. I will NOT be doing business with you ever again for the lives you have destroyed.

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@simonryan10 个月前

@Channel4News jujitsu needs to be struck off and taken down and paid every penny they took every person

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LittleFly #FBPE 💙 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺10 个月前

Apologies are not enough @UKLabour Prosecutions must follow

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Your free🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇲10 个月前

@EdwardJDavey total hypocritical tosser. You need a cell.

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JambosOnTour10 个月前

@CounsellingSam Did you pass this info to the Met?

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T. Rooth10 个月前

Let me give you a hint. Police executive (& LA's) work to principles laid down hundreds of years ago: Lord Halifax in his 1693 work Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections stated: "Laws are for the information of wise men and the blind obedience of fools"

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@PeteMann10 个月前

@ThePosieParker @EdwardJDavey Perhaps you could help with this? Maybe if they pay you £250k? Oh no! Wrong side. I bet you would though. Money grubbing little creep

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Jackie G10 个月前

This is exactly what #1950swomen face. Decades later, hidden evidence still surfaces because it was never scrutinised. Like Horizon, the state said “nothing to see here.” Apologies cost nothing. Truth, accountability and justice have been systematically denied!

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REG BRAILEY10 个月前

So how are the government dealing with this?

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Jon ARPS. #ourNHS10 个月前

From day one, it was clear that the Post Office goal was to get rid of Sub Post Offices by any means....

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Memory of WWVets Golf10 个月前

Bankrupt @Fujitsu_Global and #jailvennels #PostOfficeScandal

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DrFionaFawcett10 个月前

Show no mercy...

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Ian Aspinall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 who's/your/daddy10 个月前

And the libdems think they are the party of the people with a self centered narcissist as its head

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Little Old Wine Drinker10 个月前

@Patrici89225734 When will criminal charges begin for the senior execs and politicians who knew and facilitated prosecutions of innocent postmasters?

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gardengirl25 🐭10 个月前

The days when channel four dug deep into real stories, shame fight seems to have evaporated now

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Simon Clarke10 个月前

Another inquiry which will drag on giving the guilty time to go senile,retire,emigrate or die

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David Pilcher10 个月前

There needs to be criminal accountability at every level. Those that caused lives to be destroyed must go to jail.

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Kevin David Jones10 个月前

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Filbert Cobb10 个月前

Ed Davey should resign and if there is a mechanism to bar him from any future position of importance it should be plugged in and switched on

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For years, the Post Office and Fujitsu covered up the bugs in their faulty Horizon computer software, blaming the subpostmasters using it. Thousands had their lives ruined. Some took their own lives. Now Channel 4 News has obtained a 2006 contract between the two companies - overlooked despite being uploaded to the Post Office Inquiry's website - which a forensic accountant who investigated the Horizon scandal has described as "dynamite".

For years, the Post Office and Fujitsu covered up the bugs in their faulty Horizon computer software, blaming the subpostmasters using it. Thousands had their lives ruined. Some took their own lives. Now Channel 4 News has obtained a 2006 contract between the two companies - overlooked despite being uploaded to the Post Office Inquiry's website - which a forensic accountant who investigated the Horizon scandal has described as "dynamite".

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#PostOfficeScandal Tonight on Channel 4 News with Jackie Long there was an exclusive report by alex thomson & Nanette van der Laan that revealed for the first time a secret contract between Post Office and Fujitsu UK For years, the Post Office and Fujitsu covered up the bugs in their faulty Horizon computer software, blaming the subpostmasters using it. Thousands had their lives ruined. Some took their own lives. Now Channel 4 News has obtained a 2006 contract between the two companies – overlooked despite being uploaded to the Post Office Inquiry’s website – which a forensic accountant who investigated the Horizon scandal has described as “dynamite”. Featuring Tracy Felstead Lee Castleton OBE Ron Warmington Liam Byrne MP The fact Post Office denied remote access was possible until days before the High Court 2nd trial in 2019 when there was a contract that was signed in 2006, shows just how far they were prepared to go to keep this document out of the public domain. For it to come to light almost 20 years after it was first signed is a disgrace. It was not disclosed to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry so that witnesses could be cross examined on it. Now it will be up to Business and Trade Committee and its Chair Liam Byrne MP to uncover who knew what and when, why it wasn’t disclosed and when Fujitsu are going to start contributing to the colossal financial redress bill estimated to be £1.6 billion. At the moment it is all being carried by the taxpayer.

#PostOfficeScandal Tonight on Channel 4 News with Jackie Long there was an exclusive report by alex thomson & Nanette van der Laan that revealed for the first time a secret contract between Post Office and Fujitsu UK For years, the Post Office and Fujitsu covered up the bugs in their faulty Horizon computer software, blaming the subpostmasters using it. Thousands had their lives ruined. Some took their own lives. Now Channel 4 News has obtained a 2006 contract between the two companies – overlooked despite being uploaded to the Post Office Inquiry’s website – which a forensic accountant who investigated the Horizon scandal has described as “dynamite”. Featuring Tracy Felstead Lee Castleton OBE Ron Warmington Liam Byrne MP The fact Post Office denied remote access was possible until days before the High Court 2nd trial in 2019 when there was a contract that was signed in 2006, shows just how far they were prepared to go to keep this document out of the public domain. For it to come to light almost 20 years after it was first signed is a disgrace. It was not disclosed to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry so that witnesses could be cross examined on it. Now it will be up to Business and Trade Committee and its Chair Liam Byrne MP to uncover who knew what and when, why it wasn’t disclosed and when Fujitsu are going to start contributing to the colossal financial redress bill estimated to be £1.6 billion. At the moment it is all being carried by the taxpayer.

Christopher Head OBE

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FAMILY TOLD YEARS AFTER HER DEATH Ever refreshed your inbox for an answer that never came? The case against Fiona McGowan was dropped and nobody mentioned it to her. Fiona McGowan died in 2009, aged 47, waiting to face court over £30,000 that the Post Office system showed as missing from her Edinburgh branch. She ran it with her partner Phil Cowan. The system was called Horizon. Phil Cowan says the area manager's first question was how soon they could pay the money back. She was charged with false accounting, which means recording figures wrongly in the books. Phil Cowan says he only found out years later, through a freedom of information request, a legal way to ask public bodies for their records, that the case against her had been withdrawn before she died. He says nobody at the Post Office ever told them. He told the The Sunday Post she may well be alive today if she had not been facing court. Watch the end of the ITV News clip, where a Post Office statement says it is deeply sorry for the suffering the events of the Horizon scandal brought. Events did it, apparently. In July 2025 the same Post Office said it apologises unreservedly for the suffering Post Office caused. Then read the Post Office website. It calls the scandal a dispute that mainly concerns whether a computer system was reliable. A dispute. It also says today's Post Office puts justice and redress for victims first. I see this everywhere. The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry found Post Office staff knew, or should have known, that Horizon could produce errors, and the company kept pretending it was accurate. Now Horizon takes the blame, the Post Office turns up as the saviour and history gets rewritten. The Post Office is owned by the UK government and in Scotland the Crown Office COPFS handles prosecutions, so the state owns this too and had at least 2 numbers to ring. Her family only learned the truth years after she died. How is that human? How is that even a process? Nobody told Fiona McGowan. Not even by post.. Sources The Sunday Post Mail+ Edinburgh Evening News The Scotsman

FAMILY TOLD YEARS AFTER HER DEATH Ever refreshed your inbox for an answer that never came? The case against Fiona McGowan was dropped and nobody mentioned it to her. Fiona McGowan died in 2009, aged 47, waiting to face court over £30,000 that the Post Office system showed as missing from her Edinburgh branch. She ran it with her partner Phil Cowan. The system was called Horizon. Phil Cowan says the area manager's first question was how soon they could pay the money back. She was charged with false accounting, which means recording figures wrongly in the books. Phil Cowan says he only found out years later, through a freedom of information request, a legal way to ask public bodies for their records, that the case against her had been withdrawn before she died. He says nobody at the Post Office ever told them. He told the The Sunday Post she may well be alive today if she had not been facing court. Watch the end of the ITV News clip, where a Post Office statement says it is deeply sorry for the suffering the events of the Horizon scandal brought. Events did it, apparently. In July 2025 the same Post Office said it apologises unreservedly for the suffering Post Office caused. Then read the Post Office website. It calls the scandal a dispute that mainly concerns whether a computer system was reliable. A dispute. It also says today's Post Office puts justice and redress for victims first. I see this everywhere. The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry found Post Office staff knew, or should have known, that Horizon could produce errors, and the company kept pretending it was accurate. Now Horizon takes the blame, the Post Office turns up as the saviour and history gets rewritten. The Post Office is owned by the UK government and in Scotland the Crown Office COPFS handles prosecutions, so the state owns this too and had at least 2 numbers to ring. Her family only learned the truth years after she died. How is that human? How is that even a process? Nobody told Fiona McGowan. Not even by post.. Sources The Sunday Post Mail+ Edinburgh Evening News The Scotsman

Artur Nadolny

12,213 次观看 • 25 天前

'Post Office investigators were offered cash bonuses for every subpostmaster that was convicted during the Horizon scandal.' ranvir singh 'Some of them were given bonuses for appearing in front of an inquiry.' Quentin Letts

'Post Office investigators were offered cash bonuses for every subpostmaster that was convicted during the Horizon scandal.' ranvir singh 'Some of them were given bonuses for appearing in front of an inquiry.' Quentin Letts

Good Morning Britain

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'From criminal to OBE' #BBCBreakfast joined Seema Misra, Lee Castleton and Christopher Head as they collected their OBEs for exposing the Post Office Horizon IT scandal that saw hundreds of sub-postmasters wrongly convicted

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BBC Breakfast

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£1,700 OF IMAGINARY STAMPS You run a small post office. One morning the computer says you hold £1,700 of stamps that sit nowhere in your branch. No delivery came. You ring the helpline. The helpline says.. pay. That happened to Scott Darlington in 2008. He paid £850 a month for 2 months, taken straight from his pay. The Post Office offered no investigation. Customer service at its finest. Scott Darlington ran the Alderley Edge branch of Post Office in Cheshire from 2005 to 2009. A subpostmaster is the person who runs your local post office, usually with their own money. He paid £154K for the branch. In case you missed the Post Office scandal, here is the short version. The Post Office used a computer system called Horizon, built by Fujitsu. It showed money missing in branches across the UK. The Post Office decided the postmasters took it. Then it prosecuted around 700 of them. Back to Scott Darlington. After the £1,700, the gaps kept growing. He says he kept the accounts looking right because the last time he asked for help, the Post Office just took the money. By February 2009 an audit put the gap at over £44K. On audit day, Post Office fraud investigators arrived. He says they told him he was suspected of a crime before the audit was even finished. They interviewed him under caution and searched his home. He says the Post Office's own report went through his bank accounts and found no evidence he stole anything. The theft charge was dropped. The false accounting charges stayed. Efficiency. His lawyers told him to plead guilty, because nobody would believe the Post Office's computer could be wrong. His daughter was 8. He pleaded guilty to avoid prison and got 3 months suspended. On the first day of his trial, the Post Office did not turn up. The judge was not happy. The Post Office then applied to recover £44K from him under the Proceeds of Crime Act and got a restraining order over his branch lease, his property and his car. It dropped the application on the day of the hearing. He was told it could not succeed. He told the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry (Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry) what came next. He lost the branch and the business. His landlord gave him 7 days to find £5K to avoid bankruptcy, so he sold his instruments and home studio. The conviction helped end his relationship with his daughter's mother after more than 20 years together. It left him with depression and anxiety. He passed the interview for a job, then lost it when a background check showed the conviction. He spent over 3 years unemployed and on benefits. In April 2021 the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction along with 38 others. The judges said the Post Office's failures were so bad that the prosecutions offended the conscience of the court. That came 11 years after his conviction. The ruling returned his good name, which was nice of it. He told the Inquiry the business, the lost income and the years of poverty stayed lost. The Post Office is 100% owned by the UK government. Scott Darlington says he believes the Post Office and the government department that owns it knew, or should have known. He wants those responsible held to account in public. Read his story and share it. The Post Office is hoping you scroll past. Sources: Manchester News MEN BBC News (UK) The Times and Sunday Times ComputerWeekly ITV News Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry

£1,700 OF IMAGINARY STAMPS You run a small post office. One morning the computer says you hold £1,700 of stamps that sit nowhere in your branch. No delivery came. You ring the helpline. The helpline says.. pay. That happened to Scott Darlington in 2008. He paid £850 a month for 2 months, taken straight from his pay. The Post Office offered no investigation. Customer service at its finest. Scott Darlington ran the Alderley Edge branch of Post Office in Cheshire from 2005 to 2009. A subpostmaster is the person who runs your local post office, usually with their own money. He paid £154K for the branch. In case you missed the Post Office scandal, here is the short version. The Post Office used a computer system called Horizon, built by Fujitsu. It showed money missing in branches across the UK. The Post Office decided the postmasters took it. Then it prosecuted around 700 of them. Back to Scott Darlington. After the £1,700, the gaps kept growing. He says he kept the accounts looking right because the last time he asked for help, the Post Office just took the money. By February 2009 an audit put the gap at over £44K. On audit day, Post Office fraud investigators arrived. He says they told him he was suspected of a crime before the audit was even finished. They interviewed him under caution and searched his home. He says the Post Office's own report went through his bank accounts and found no evidence he stole anything. The theft charge was dropped. The false accounting charges stayed. Efficiency. His lawyers told him to plead guilty, because nobody would believe the Post Office's computer could be wrong. His daughter was 8. He pleaded guilty to avoid prison and got 3 months suspended. On the first day of his trial, the Post Office did not turn up. The judge was not happy. The Post Office then applied to recover £44K from him under the Proceeds of Crime Act and got a restraining order over his branch lease, his property and his car. It dropped the application on the day of the hearing. He was told it could not succeed. He told the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry (Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry) what came next. He lost the branch and the business. His landlord gave him 7 days to find £5K to avoid bankruptcy, so he sold his instruments and home studio. The conviction helped end his relationship with his daughter's mother after more than 20 years together. It left him with depression and anxiety. He passed the interview for a job, then lost it when a background check showed the conviction. He spent over 3 years unemployed and on benefits. In April 2021 the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction along with 38 others. The judges said the Post Office's failures were so bad that the prosecutions offended the conscience of the court. That came 11 years after his conviction. The ruling returned his good name, which was nice of it. He told the Inquiry the business, the lost income and the years of poverty stayed lost. The Post Office is 100% owned by the UK government. Scott Darlington says he believes the Post Office and the government department that owns it knew, or should have known. He wants those responsible held to account in public. Read his story and share it. The Post Office is hoping you scroll past. Sources: Manchester News MEN BBC News (UK) The Times and Sunday Times ComputerWeekly ITV News Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry

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73,112 次观看 • 29 天前

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Business and Trade Committee

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'There is no justice in delay' Lee Castleton, who was wrongly convicted in the Post Office IT scandal, spoke to #BBCBreakfast after police warned the criminal investigation could be delayed by five years unless it receives millions of pounds in extra funding

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BBC Breakfast

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ANYTHING TO SAY? NOPE, NOTHING FOR LEE CASTLETON Lee Castleton OBE lost his business and his home. Years later the lawyer who ran the case against him was asked if he had anything to say to him. Stephen Dilley said no. Not one word of sorry. I cannot find the words for how pathetic that is. Quick background for anyone who missed it. Lee Castleton ran a Post Office Post Office branch in Bridlington. The Post Office said its Horizon computer system showed £25,000 missing. He refused to pay it back. Horizon was later found to be faulty, which does tend to spoil a missing money story. Who could possibly have seen that coming. It now sits at the centre of what has been called the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK history. The Post Office took him to the High Court, because when a computer says you owe money, a courtroom is the obvious next step. His legal insurance ran out, so he faced the trial alone. He lost and was ordered to pay the Post Office's legal costs of £321,000. Bankrupt. Shop closed. Home sold. What a lovely ending. Now to 21 September 2023 and the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry. Inquiry counsel Julian Blake hands Stephen Dilley, a partner at Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP, the easiest question of the day. Does he want to say anything to Lee Castleton or his family? Stephen Dilley says no. Julian Blake asks if he bears any responsibility for what happened. Stephen Dilley says he is satisfied that he and his firm acted professionally, politely and appropriately at all times. Professionally, politely and appropriately. Marvellous. He marked his own work and gave himself full marks. A family lost their business and their home, and the man who ran the case had nothing to say to them. Inhuman is the word I keep landing on. The same Inquiry saw an email where Stephen Dilley wrote that the Post Office wished to be seen taking the claim seriously to discourage other subpostmasters from pursuing claims. He also accepted there was a significant risk Lee Castleton could not pay. A message for everyone else, sent by chasing a man who might not be able to pay. Efficient, polite and appropriate, as advertised. Lee Castleton says Stephen Dilley told him before trial that the Post Office would ruin him and to think of his family. Stephen Dilley told the Inquiry he refutes using that language.. Lee Castleton now has an OBE for services to justice. He also has a High Court claim against the Post Office and Fujitsu to have that 2007 judgment set aside. Justice is taking the scenic route. Lee Castleton Lee Castleton OBE, the floor is yours. Tell us what you feel watching this and what you would say to Stephen Dilley. Everyone else, comment and share so more people see it.

ANYTHING TO SAY? NOPE, NOTHING FOR LEE CASTLETON Lee Castleton OBE lost his business and his home. Years later the lawyer who ran the case against him was asked if he had anything to say to him. Stephen Dilley said no. Not one word of sorry. I cannot find the words for how pathetic that is. Quick background for anyone who missed it. Lee Castleton ran a Post Office Post Office branch in Bridlington. The Post Office said its Horizon computer system showed £25,000 missing. He refused to pay it back. Horizon was later found to be faulty, which does tend to spoil a missing money story. Who could possibly have seen that coming. It now sits at the centre of what has been called the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK history. The Post Office took him to the High Court, because when a computer says you owe money, a courtroom is the obvious next step. His legal insurance ran out, so he faced the trial alone. He lost and was ordered to pay the Post Office's legal costs of £321,000. Bankrupt. Shop closed. Home sold. What a lovely ending. Now to 21 September 2023 and the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry. Inquiry counsel Julian Blake hands Stephen Dilley, a partner at Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP, the easiest question of the day. Does he want to say anything to Lee Castleton or his family? Stephen Dilley says no. Julian Blake asks if he bears any responsibility for what happened. Stephen Dilley says he is satisfied that he and his firm acted professionally, politely and appropriately at all times. Professionally, politely and appropriately. Marvellous. He marked his own work and gave himself full marks. A family lost their business and their home, and the man who ran the case had nothing to say to them. Inhuman is the word I keep landing on. The same Inquiry saw an email where Stephen Dilley wrote that the Post Office wished to be seen taking the claim seriously to discourage other subpostmasters from pursuing claims. He also accepted there was a significant risk Lee Castleton could not pay. A message for everyone else, sent by chasing a man who might not be able to pay. Efficient, polite and appropriate, as advertised. Lee Castleton says Stephen Dilley told him before trial that the Post Office would ruin him and to think of his family. Stephen Dilley told the Inquiry he refutes using that language.. Lee Castleton now has an OBE for services to justice. He also has a High Court claim against the Post Office and Fujitsu to have that 2007 judgment set aside. Justice is taking the scenic route. Lee Castleton Lee Castleton OBE, the floor is yours. Tell us what you feel watching this and what you would say to Stephen Dilley. Everyone else, comment and share so more people see it.

Artur Nadolny

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THE WHISTLEBLOWER WHO CRACKED THE BIGGEST SCANDAL IN UK LEGAL HISTORY Richard Roll fujitsu worked on the Horizon system. In 2015 he went on BBC Panorama and told them Fujitsu engineers had remote access to subpostmaster accounts and could change the numbers in secret. Post Office called that impossible. It was their entire defence. 700 people had already been prosecuted on the back of it. Post Office response: send lawyers to intimidate the journalists' sources. Hide Roll's identity from them. Call it a briefing. Call it protecting the brand. Roll gave evidence in the 2019 High Court case. It helped prove the system was defective. Convictions started falling. Since the ITV drama aired, Fujitsu has collected around £510 million in new UK government contracts. Victims are still waiting for compensation. One man spoke up in 2015. The institution spent a decade making sure nobody heard him. Sources: BBC Panorama / ComputerWeekly / The Guardian / Others

Artur Nadolny

40,177 次观看 • 6 个月前

POST OFFICE KNEW ITS TILL BUTTON WAS ROBBING PEOPLE SINCE 2019 A subpostmaster called Denis O'Donnell messaged me on LinkedIn. He follows this page and asked me to help amplify a story he has spent six years trying to get anyone to take seriously. After checking it out I understand why he is still fighting. In 2019 O'Donnell ran a Post Office branch in Prestatyn, Wales. He noticed something wrong with the till. A screen icon on the Horizon system does two opposite jobs, take money and pay money. When several transactions stack up together, Horizon can hand cash to a customer and then log it as a payment the other way, creating an instant shortfall the subpostmaster gets blamed for. O'Donnell wrote to the top. He sent letters to then CEO Nick Read and communications boss Mark Davies. Post Office's answer was that it was a one off mistake, fixed within days. Convenient timing too, since this was 6 months after Post Office had just been humiliated in the High Court by subpostmasters who proved Horizon was faulty all along. O'Donnell kept pushing for years. He eventually got the story to ComputerWeekly and its reporter Karl Flinders Karl Flinders, and to Ron Warmington, the forensic investigator at Second Sight who was one of the original people who blew open the whole Horizon scandal back in 2012. Warmington called this new defect sufficiently serious to write directly to the public inquiry. He also called Post Office's first response to questions about it arrogant and dismissive, which by now is basically the company's official slogan. Post Office finally agreed to investigate and warn branches in December 2025. Six years after O'Donnell first told them. Their own spokesperson said it is impossible to know the true impact but they believe it is limited, based on checking 1 year of error logs out of more than 24 years Horizon has been running. O'Donnell calls that maths a joke, and it is hard to disagree when millions of transactions across two and a half decades got reduced to a single year sample. O'Donnell is trying to warn other subpostmasters and their families that the Post Office Process Review scheme closes to new applications on 30 September 2026. This scheme covers losses caused by Post Office products, policies or processes, separate from the Horizon Shortfall Scheme which already closed in January and the GLO scheme closing this month. If people affected by this specific defect do not apply before the deadline, they may lose the chance entirely. Post Office spent over two decades telling subpostmasters the system never lies. Then it spent six more years telling one particular whistleblower his bug did not matter. Forgive people for not trusting the next apology on the first read. If you are a current or former subpostmaster affected by this or unsure about the Process Review deadline, get proper advice before it closes. SOURCES ComputerWeekly Karl Flinders Post Office Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry BBC News (UK)

POST OFFICE KNEW ITS TILL BUTTON WAS ROBBING PEOPLE SINCE 2019 A subpostmaster called Denis O'Donnell messaged me on LinkedIn. He follows this page and asked me to help amplify a story he has spent six years trying to get anyone to take seriously. After checking it out I understand why he is still fighting. In 2019 O'Donnell ran a Post Office branch in Prestatyn, Wales. He noticed something wrong with the till. A screen icon on the Horizon system does two opposite jobs, take money and pay money. When several transactions stack up together, Horizon can hand cash to a customer and then log it as a payment the other way, creating an instant shortfall the subpostmaster gets blamed for. O'Donnell wrote to the top. He sent letters to then CEO Nick Read and communications boss Mark Davies. Post Office's answer was that it was a one off mistake, fixed within days. Convenient timing too, since this was 6 months after Post Office had just been humiliated in the High Court by subpostmasters who proved Horizon was faulty all along. O'Donnell kept pushing for years. He eventually got the story to ComputerWeekly and its reporter Karl Flinders Karl Flinders, and to Ron Warmington, the forensic investigator at Second Sight who was one of the original people who blew open the whole Horizon scandal back in 2012. Warmington called this new defect sufficiently serious to write directly to the public inquiry. He also called Post Office's first response to questions about it arrogant and dismissive, which by now is basically the company's official slogan. Post Office finally agreed to investigate and warn branches in December 2025. Six years after O'Donnell first told them. Their own spokesperson said it is impossible to know the true impact but they believe it is limited, based on checking 1 year of error logs out of more than 24 years Horizon has been running. O'Donnell calls that maths a joke, and it is hard to disagree when millions of transactions across two and a half decades got reduced to a single year sample. O'Donnell is trying to warn other subpostmasters and their families that the Post Office Process Review scheme closes to new applications on 30 September 2026. This scheme covers losses caused by Post Office products, policies or processes, separate from the Horizon Shortfall Scheme which already closed in January and the GLO scheme closing this month. If people affected by this specific defect do not apply before the deadline, they may lose the chance entirely. Post Office spent over two decades telling subpostmasters the system never lies. Then it spent six more years telling one particular whistleblower his bug did not matter. Forgive people for not trusting the next apology on the first read. If you are a current or former subpostmaster affected by this or unsure about the Process Review deadline, get proper advice before it closes. SOURCES ComputerWeekly Karl Flinders Post Office Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry BBC News (UK)

Artur Nadolny

47,653 次观看 • 3 个月前

Our BBC Panorama Trouble At The Post Office in August 20I5 had a Fujitsu whistleblower who said Horizon computer generated errors. This was the first time outsiders knew for a fact the Post Office was lying. So it is unfair to criticise Keir Starmer and Ed Davey who were out of the picture in August 2015. By then the Conservatives were in charge. And they gave Paula Vennels a gong.

Our BBC Panorama Trouble At The Post Office in August 20I5 had a Fujitsu whistleblower who said Horizon computer generated errors. This was the first time outsiders knew for a fact the Post Office was lying. So it is unfair to criticise Keir Starmer and Ed Davey who were out of the picture in August 2015. By then the Conservatives were in charge. And they gave Paula Vennels a gong.

John Sweeney

1,441,548 次观看 • 2 年前

The former top Post Office lawyer who will NOT be appearing at the inquiry has been tracked down. Jane MacLeod is in Australia. The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry even offered to cover transport and hotel costs. Still no. No comment to us. Very short walk for her dog.

The former top Post Office lawyer who will NOT be appearing at the inquiry has been tracked down. Jane MacLeod is in Australia. The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry even offered to cover transport and hotel costs. Still no. No comment to us. Very short walk for her dog.

Peter Ruddick

227,118 次观看 • 2 年前

Former sub-postmaster Lee Castleton - whose story featured in ITV's hit drama 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office' is becoming the first person to sue the Post Office and Fujitsu to try to clear his name.

Former sub-postmaster Lee Castleton - whose story featured in ITV's hit drama 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office' is becoming the first person to sue the Post Office and Fujitsu to try to clear his name.

Good Morning Britain

32,716 次观看 • 1 年前

The inquiry into the Post Office scandal begins taking evidence today from the Post Office and Fujitsu, whose computer programme Horizon ruined the lives of many innocent people. So far only 4 people have been fully compensated. Here's how HIGNFY dealt with the story in 2021...

The inquiry into the Post Office scandal begins taking evidence today from the Post Office and Fujitsu, whose computer programme Horizon ruined the lives of many innocent people. So far only 4 people have been fully compensated. Here's how HIGNFY dealt with the story in 2021...

Have I Got News For You

1,516,608 次观看 • 3 年前

A secret recording obtained by ITV News shows how investigators pled with the Post Office about its refusal to hand over potentially crucial emails regarding the Horizon IT scandal | Investigations Editor Daniel Hewitt reports

A secret recording obtained by ITV News shows how investigators pled with the Post Office about its refusal to hand over potentially crucial emails regarding the Horizon IT scandal | Investigations Editor Daniel Hewitt reports

ITV News

64,242 次观看 • 2 年前

DEAD BEFORE SHE WAS CLEARED Caren Lorimer ran the New Farm Loch Post Office in Kilmarnock for 17 years. In 2008 an "audit" claimed a £38,000 shortfall. She pled guilty to embezzlement so she would not go to prison. She was sentenced to 300 hours of community service and ordered to pay Post Office £15,000. That money was never missing because of her. It was Horizon, the accounting software Fujitsu Fujitsu UK built and Post Office Post Office used to prosecute more of its own staff than any other British organisation in history. Post Office knew the system threw up fake shortfalls for years and let people like Caren carry the blame anyway. Caren died from cancer in April 2022. She died a convicted criminal. Her husband David Lorimer, her daughter Laura Miller, her son Jack Lorimer and her niece Joanne Hughes kept fighting after she was gone. On 10 June 2024 the email came. Her conviction was quashed. She is the seventh person in Scotland cleared this way. In Scotland the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service COPFS COPFS prosecuted every Horizon case, unlike England where Post Office prosecuted directly. COPFS knew in 2013 there were problems with Horizon. It quietly stopped prosecuting new cases in 2015. It never went back and reviewed the convictions it had already secured, including Caren's. COPFS says it acted in good faith and was assured a review would not turn up miscarriages of justice. Convenient assurance. It let a woman die still labelled a thief while the people who ran her prosecution sat on the knowledge that the evidence was rotten. Post Office Post Office is 100% state owned. The government that owns it does not get to hide behind it and shrug. This is a public body running on public money, and public money comes with public accountability, something everyone involved here conveniently forgot. Caren's daughter Laura Miller said her mother knew all along she had done nothing wrong. So did the whole family. Now there is proof. It came two years too late for Caren to hear it herself. Comment below if this makes you as angry as it makes me. SOURCES BBC Scotland News, Katie Hunter, STV News and others.

DEAD BEFORE SHE WAS CLEARED Caren Lorimer ran the New Farm Loch Post Office in Kilmarnock for 17 years. In 2008 an "audit" claimed a £38,000 shortfall. She pled guilty to embezzlement so she would not go to prison. She was sentenced to 300 hours of community service and ordered to pay Post Office £15,000. That money was never missing because of her. It was Horizon, the accounting software Fujitsu Fujitsu UK built and Post Office Post Office used to prosecute more of its own staff than any other British organisation in history. Post Office knew the system threw up fake shortfalls for years and let people like Caren carry the blame anyway. Caren died from cancer in April 2022. She died a convicted criminal. Her husband David Lorimer, her daughter Laura Miller, her son Jack Lorimer and her niece Joanne Hughes kept fighting after she was gone. On 10 June 2024 the email came. Her conviction was quashed. She is the seventh person in Scotland cleared this way. In Scotland the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service COPFS COPFS prosecuted every Horizon case, unlike England where Post Office prosecuted directly. COPFS knew in 2013 there were problems with Horizon. It quietly stopped prosecuting new cases in 2015. It never went back and reviewed the convictions it had already secured, including Caren's. COPFS says it acted in good faith and was assured a review would not turn up miscarriages of justice. Convenient assurance. It let a woman die still labelled a thief while the people who ran her prosecution sat on the knowledge that the evidence was rotten. Post Office Post Office is 100% state owned. The government that owns it does not get to hide behind it and shrug. This is a public body running on public money, and public money comes with public accountability, something everyone involved here conveniently forgot. Caren's daughter Laura Miller said her mother knew all along she had done nothing wrong. So did the whole family. Now there is proof. It came two years too late for Caren to hear it herself. Comment below if this makes you as angry as it makes me. SOURCES BBC Scotland News, Katie Hunter, STV News and others.

Artur Nadolny

27,660 次观看 • 1 个月前

MEET THE BARRISTER THE POST OFFICE FEARS Here's a name that deserves to trend more than half the people who actually do. Sam Stein KC. While the Post Office was busy ruining ordinary people's lives over money that was never actually missing, Stein was in a courtroom taking it apart piece by piece. He represents most of the subpostmasters at the Post Office Horizon Inquiry Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, instructed by Howe and Co Howe + Co Solicitors, on behalf of the people the Post Office tried to bury. In 2021 he stood in the Court of Appeal representing a group of subpostmasters, instructed by Howe and Co Howe + Co Solicitors, in the same case that finally cleared Jo Hamilton Jo Hamilton and dozens of others after years of wrongful convictions. He told the judges the Post Office's refusal to investigate its own broken Horizon system, built by Fujitsu Fujitsu UK, was the longest running affront to British justice in living memory. The judges agreed and quashed the convictions. Then the public inquiry started and Stein really got going. He told the inquiry the Post Office had turned itself into "the nation's most untrustworthy brand." A blunt summary, backed by 2.2 million pages of evidence. He described former Post Office lawyer Mandy Talbot as "the Post Office's very own evil robot" after she was asked repeatedly who had directed a legal strategy built to silence a subpostmaster and kept saying she couldn't remember. Convenient amnesia. Goes around a lot in this organisation. He summed up a whole phase of hearings by calling the parade of witnesses "a rogues' gallery." Executives who forgot everything except how to protect themselves. Questioning executive Angela van den Bogerd about the Post Office's own helpline, he told her she had been "intimidating and bullying" toward subpostmistress Jennifer O'Dell, who kept calling to say she hadn't stolen a penny. She was telling the truth. Nobody listened for years. In his closing submission for phase 2, he told the inquiry to work out whether the entire scandal was a "cock-up or cook-up." By phase 3 he had his answer. Cook-up, no doubt about it. He said the Post Office spent that entire phase dodging its own failures and instead "turned its tank turret gun on Fujitsu." Subpostmasters called the organisation that prosecuted them "the abuser." Questioning former minister Pat McFadden about it, Stein got that word onto the official record, permanently. In his final closing statement, Stein made the point that mattered most. This was never really a problem with a computer. It was a problem with people, and people paid the price. He said what actually drove the scandal was "cruelty, callousness and connivance," and that people are still living with the consequences. He also named former CEO Paula Vennells, executive Angela van den Bogerd and in-house lawyer Jarnail Singh as part of a rogues' gallery remembered for lies and incompetence, and pointed out £37 million received by the Post Office is still unaccounted for. Nobody's chasing it. Urgency always disappears when it's the institution's own money at stake. He also said the external law firm Cartwright King failed subpostmasters, because by the time its lawyers were brought in, they had become company men. Stein also pushed the inquiry to recommend actual restorative justice. Counselling for postmasters and their families. Bursaries for children whose education was wrecked. A permanent memorial. Reputations rebuilt in the small communities where they were destroyed. Volume 1 of the final report landed in July 2025. The rest keeps slipping. Current estimate is September 2026, and even that looks optimistic. A criminal investigation into the Post Office is on hold waiting for it. People keep dying while they wait to be believed. The Post Office spent two decades hoping this would quietly disappear. Sam Stein KC made sure it never got the chance. SOURCES ComputerWeekly Law Society Gazette BBC News (UK) and many others.

Artur Nadolny

41,185 次观看 • 3 个月前

$THE GRAVE CLEANER Julian Wilson ran the post office in Astwood Bank, Worcestershire, with his wife Karen from 2001 to 2008. He bought the business for £125,000. He kept meticulous records and reported every glitch the moment he spotted it. That kind of diligence usually gets you a pat on the back. Here it got him a criminal record. Post Office's Horizon system, showed a shortfall of over £27,000 that never actually existed. His lawyer told him plead guilty or risk prison. He pleaded guilty in 2008 to false accounting. His sentence was 300 hours of community service. Part of that service was cleaning graves. A man who rang the Horizon helpdesk to report a fault ended up scrubbing headstones as punishment for a bug he didn't create. The Post Office slapped the couple with a confiscation order and froze their assets. They were forced to sell the business at a fraction of what it was worth. Karen sold her jewellery, including her engagement ring, to help cover the costs. Julian could never get another job with a false accounting conviction hanging over him. He spent the rest of his life trying to clear his name and became one of the founding members of the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance. He never got to see it succeed. Julian died of bowel cancer in 2016. His conviction was finally quashed in 2021, 5 years after he was already gone. Karen Wilson told the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry that the investigation and his illness broke him in the end. Paula Vennells ran the Post Office from 2012 to 2019 while it kept insisting the software was fine. She has since said she is truly sorry for the devastation caused. An apology does not clean a grave. It does not un-convict a dead man either. More than 700 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 in what is now formally recognised as the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history. Julian Wilson is one name inside that number. He deserved to hear the word innocent while he was still alive to hear it. SOURCES BBC News (UK) Nick Wallis Karl Flinders Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Fujitsu UK$

THE GRAVE CLEANER Julian Wilson ran the post office in Astwood Bank, Worcestershire, with his wife Karen from 2001 to 2008. He bought the business for £125,000. He kept meticulous records and reported every glitch the moment he spotted it. That kind of diligence usually gets you a pat on the back. Here it got him a criminal record. Post Office's Horizon system, showed a shortfall of over £27,000 that never actually existed. His lawyer told him plead guilty or risk prison. He pleaded guilty in 2008 to false accounting. His sentence was 300 hours of community service. Part of that service was cleaning graves. A man who rang the Horizon helpdesk to report a fault ended up scrubbing headstones as punishment for a bug he didn't create. The Post Office slapped the couple with a confiscation order and froze their assets. They were forced to sell the business at a fraction of what it was worth. Karen sold her jewellery, including her engagement ring, to help cover the costs. Julian could never get another job with a false accounting conviction hanging over him. He spent the rest of his life trying to clear his name and became one of the founding members of the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance. He never got to see it succeed. Julian died of bowel cancer in 2016. His conviction was finally quashed in 2021, 5 years after he was already gone. Karen Wilson told the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry that the investigation and his illness broke him in the end. Paula Vennells ran the Post Office from 2012 to 2019 while it kept insisting the software was fine. She has since said she is truly sorry for the devastation caused. An apology does not clean a grave. It does not un-convict a dead man either. More than 700 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 in what is now formally recognised as the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history. Julian Wilson is one name inside that number. He deserved to hear the word innocent while he was still alive to hear it. SOURCES BBC News (UK) Nick Wallis Karl Flinders Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Fujitsu UK

Artur Nadolny

19,864 次观看 • 2 个月前