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Noel Thomas – a former postman - has been recently portrayed in ITV’s Post Office drama He served time in jail after being wrongly accused of false accounting See him tell his story in Panorama’s The Post Office Scandal (2022) #BBCPanorama

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Lorraine writervor 2 Jahren

@BBCNews There must surely be extra compensation for the postmaster who spent time in prison

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Bernadette Kirkpatrivor 2 Jahren

Oh my goodness this is disgraceful. The post office and Horizon have a hell of a lot to answer to. They should serve prison sentences for their destruction of people's lives.

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Cuckoo Taboovor 2 Jahren

Paula Vennells should be in prison...

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Steve Goodvor 2 Jahren

555 postmasters and postmistress’s are to get £750000 between them !!!!!! Wtf that’s just over £1300 each what a bloody insult

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William John Hartevor 2 Jahren

Another million £ financial scandal destroying peoples lives being ignored, would you like to be the first news outlet. People and families have been destroyed, even the minister for this particular sector blocked people ? One person lost over £500,000.00 wiped them out #MrBates

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shield_warriorvor 2 Jahren

The call from PM & the public is that Fujitsu should be investigated and prosecuted as this appears to be a conspiracy and falsifying evidence (perjury). The compensation should be awarded from them to the postmasters and not the public purse.

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Maurice 🇪🇺🇮🇱🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇯🇪 #HopeNotHatevor 2 Jahren

@BBCNews Jail them

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Dodgervor 2 Jahren

@BBCNews BBC more interested in Boris having a slice of cake! Terrible news organisation only interested in Left Wing agendas and anything woke!

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H.C.Hendrixvor 2 Jahren

@BBCNews Funny how everyone on social media is suddenly an expert on a story that's been public information for decades.

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JJvor 2 Jahren

With each tv show the post office and Fujitsu come across as total bastards. Affected postmasters (male and female) should be compensated fully (wages,pensions,damages, debt from plugging Horizon software mistakes) People in PO and Fujitsu covering up should be investigated

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POSTMAN SERVED 42 YEARS. THE POST OFFICE SERVED HIM A PRISON SENTENCE Noel Thomas spent 42 years working for the Post Office. He started as a postman on Anglesey in 1965, then ran the Gaerwen branch with his wife Eira for over a decade. He had also served as a Plaid Cymru county councillor since 1986, the kind of man villages build community halls around. In 2006 the Post Office accused him of stealing £48,000. The evidence came from Horizon, a computer system with a talent for inventing crimes nobody committed. On legal advice he pleaded guilty to false accounting to avoid a theft charge and stop his legal bill climbing further. He was jailed for 9 months. The Post Office's opening move was sending him to HMP Liverpool Walton, locked in his cell 23 hours a day. After a week he was moved to HMP Kirkham, where he worked in the prison greenhouses. He was released after 12 weeks for good behaviour, fitted with an electronic tag as a parting gift. While he sat in prison the Post Office made sure he lost his council seat too. A man who had served the community since 1986 was disqualified from Anglesey Council over a shortfall a faulty computer system invented. His pension, earned over 42 years, was gone. The family sold their home to their own son just to keep it out of the Post Office's reach, then moved in with daughter Sian. In 2021 the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction, one of 39 overturned that day after the Post Office admitted it would not contest most of the appeals. Sir Alan Bates, the Craig-y-Don postmaster who built the entire legal fight against the Post Office, had been organising support for people like Thomas since 2009. After ITV dramatised the scandal in Mr Bates vs The Post Office in January 2024, politicians who had said nothing for years suddenly found strong feelings about Noel Thomas. Ynys Môn MP Virginia Crosbie posted online about securing him a meeting with Post Office minister Kevin Hollinrake Kevin Hollinrake MP. Thomas's daughter Sian told her on X to stop, said she had never met her, and called the sudden interest opportunism. Llinos Medi Llinos Medi AS/MP, then the Plaid Cymru candidate for the seat and now its sitting MP, made the same accusation in public. Anglesey Council later held a formal vote of gratitude for Thomas, with Cllr Bob Parry telling colleagues he would never forget the image of him being led into a police van. Last year Bangor University Bangor University gave him an honorary degree for exposing the truth. Weeks later the Gorsedd of the Bards inducted him at the National Eisteddfod. Wales gave him robes and a doctorate. The Post Office gave him a prison number. He is 77 now. 42 years handing out stamps and listening to a village's problems. 9 months in a cell for a crime a computer invented. 15 years spent clearing his name. A doctorate. A seat among the bards. The one thing nobody can give him back is the years he spent proving he never stole a penny. SOURCES: BBC Wales News Nick Wallis North Wales Live ITVWales and many others.

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