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POST OFFICE BANKRUPTED A MAN AFTER HE ASKED FOR HELP 91 TIMES Lee Castleton Lee Castleton OBE did not hide the problem. He reported it 91 times in just 12 weeks. He kept telling the Post Office that Horizon was showing losses he could not explain. Their response was... to audit him, suspend him, demand around £25,000 and eventually bankrupt him. In 2003, Lee Castleton and his wife sold their home and bought a small Post Office branch in Bridlington, hoping for a quieter life by the sea with their two young children. Within a year, Horizon was showing unexplained shortages. When the case reached the High Court, he could not afford a lawyer and represented himself. He lost. The Post Office then pursued him for about £321,000 in legal costs. He was bankrupted. His children were bullied at school. His daughter was spat at because people believed her father was a thief. His wife's health suffered. In 2019, he was one of more than 550 former postmasters in the group litigation that ended with a £58 million settlement. His share was around £20,000. Years later, former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells told the Horizon IT Inquiry that his treatment had been unforgivable. She also accepted that she had probably signed off the legal costs that helped bankrupt him. He is now pursuing the Post Office and Fujitsu for up to £8 million, arguing that the original 2007 judgment was obtained by fraud. In May 2026, the Court of Appeal ruled that his claim should proceed as one trial. Almost two decades after those first calls for help, he is still fighting. 91 calls. No solution. Then bankruptcy. Sources BBC News (UK) Law Society Gazette ComputerWeekly and othersshow more

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@CastletonLee @PostOffice The story of Lee Middleton stands out in the post office cases. Representing himself against experienced lawyers whose case was based on lies must have been horrendous. The duty of candour should apply to legal professionals! Good luck @CastletonLee

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@CastletonLee @PostOffice The Post Office are still wasting public money to defend the case brought by Lee Castleton against them. The Post Office have to admit they obtained the case against him by fraud.

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@CastletonLee @PostOffice Also if that money was never missing just an error but postmasters had to pay money back where did that money go then if it was never missing in the first place Who got it ? Or who keep it

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@BFujer @CastletonLee @PostOffice This is a damning indictment on how the political class views the general public as: scammers, thieves & outright criminals. Funny how the tables have turned & the wider public now views the political class as: scammers, thieves & outright criminals.

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@CastletonLee @PostOffice Corporate crimes will destroy the UK.

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@CastletonLee @PostOffice What a brave tenacious man. He deserves £8mil and more. These cretins have stolen his and his family’s life. Cowardly Bastards.

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@CastletonLee @PostOffice Absolutely disgusting the way they’ve been treated !

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@CastletonLee @PostOffice I would have told them to stuff their medal. Disgraceful what happened to that poor guy.

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@CastletonLee @PostOffice ACCOUNTABILITY . . where is it? People died . .People went to prison . . 1000's of people suffered terrible mental anguish . . . From top to bottom there needs accountability

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@CastletonLee @PostOffice @EdwardJDavey any comment

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@CastletonLee @PostOffice Wicked. When are the perpetrators of this egregious miscarriage of justice going to be held to account? If I was Prime Minister I would make it my mission. @andyburnham

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@CastletonLee @PostOffice Prison for Paula

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@CastletonLee @PostOffice I think that at some point in Lee's horrendous experience he was a actually living in his car. Unimaginable: his strength of character is astonishing.

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@CastletonLee @PostOffice How do you get £20k out of £58M????

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@CastletonLee @PostOffice You’re all over this @EdwardJDavey

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BULLY BOYS IN BLACK SUITS Chris Dawson ran a thriving Post Office branch in Pitlochry, Perthshire, plus a smaller one in Kinloch Rannoch and an attached toy and gift shop. Then in 2010 an auditor turned up, the Horizon system flagged a £17,500 shortfall, and his life ended that day even though nobody told him yet. Two men in black suits interrogated him in his own home while his wife and kids sat upstairs. He called them bully boys. The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry heard how there was an automatic presumption of guilt before a single fact was checked. He was offered a deal. Plead guilty to theft and they would drop the fraud charge. He said no, because he had not stolen anything, because nobody had. He was suspended for six months on no pay. Within months the mortgage was gone. Within months the marriage was gone too. He said he does not believe any marriage could survive that kind of pressure, and he is right, because marriages are not built to survive being audited by a computer glitch. He was never prosecuted. That is meant to sound like good news. It is not. He still lost the business, the home, the car, and was declared bankrupt. Pitlochry is a small cash handling town and everyone knew he was under suspicion. He said it made him unemployable. Nobody hires the guy the town thinks robbed the Post Office, even when the Post Office quietly knew the £17,500 was never actually missing. He ended up washing dishes to survive. He battled depression through what he calls 14 years of hell on earth. He rebuilt his life from nothing, working as a carer for vulnerable elderly people, the very people who never got the memo that dignity is optional once an algorithm decides you are a thief. In 2022 he gave evidence in Glasgow and wept in front of the inquiry. He asked to see former chief executive Paula Vennells and other senior officials face the full weight of the law, the same weight that was so eagerly dropped on him for a crime that never happened. He was 48 years old when he said it. He should never have had to. Another subpostmaster, another stolen decade, another institution that never once said sorry until a TV drama forced the country to look. SOURCES BBC Scotland News STV News The Courier Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry

BULLY BOYS IN BLACK SUITS Chris Dawson ran a thriving Post Office branch in Pitlochry, Perthshire, plus a smaller one in Kinloch Rannoch and an attached toy and gift shop. Then in 2010 an auditor turned up, the Horizon system flagged a £17,500 shortfall, and his life ended that day even though nobody told him yet. Two men in black suits interrogated him in his own home while his wife and kids sat upstairs. He called them bully boys. The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry heard how there was an automatic presumption of guilt before a single fact was checked. He was offered a deal. Plead guilty to theft and they would drop the fraud charge. He said no, because he had not stolen anything, because nobody had. He was suspended for six months on no pay. Within months the mortgage was gone. Within months the marriage was gone too. He said he does not believe any marriage could survive that kind of pressure, and he is right, because marriages are not built to survive being audited by a computer glitch. He was never prosecuted. That is meant to sound like good news. It is not. He still lost the business, the home, the car, and was declared bankrupt. Pitlochry is a small cash handling town and everyone knew he was under suspicion. He said it made him unemployable. Nobody hires the guy the town thinks robbed the Post Office, even when the Post Office quietly knew the £17,500 was never actually missing. He ended up washing dishes to survive. He battled depression through what he calls 14 years of hell on earth. He rebuilt his life from nothing, working as a carer for vulnerable elderly people, the very people who never got the memo that dignity is optional once an algorithm decides you are a thief. In 2022 he gave evidence in Glasgow and wept in front of the inquiry. He asked to see former chief executive Paula Vennells and other senior officials face the full weight of the law, the same weight that was so eagerly dropped on him for a crime that never happened. He was 48 years old when he said it. He should never have had to. Another subpostmaster, another stolen decade, another institution that never once said sorry until a TV drama forced the country to look. SOURCES BBC Scotland News STV News The Courier Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry

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$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

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THE POST OFFICE DESTROYED HUNDREDS OF LIVES. DID IT ALSO PUT AN INNOCENT MAN AWAY FOR MURDER? Paul Bourne from Linkedin brought this story to me this week. Paul, I owe you one for this. Robin Garbutt woke up on 23 March 2010 and went to open his Post Office like any other morning. By the end of that day, his wife Diana was dead. He was a suspect. Within a year, he was in prison for life. He has been there ever since. Robin says what happened that morning was this. An armed man broke in. Forced him at gunpoint to open the safe and hand over £16,000. Robin was powerless. He ran upstairs after the man left and found Diana bludgeoned to death in their bed. The police did not believe him. Prosecutors built a case around one central idea. Robin had been stealing from the Post Office. Diana found out. He killed her to keep her quiet and staged the robbery to cover his tracks. The theft evidence came from Horizon. The same IT system that fabricated shortfalls in hundreds of Post Office branches across the country. The same system that saw innocent sub-postmasters prosecuted, bankrupted, and driven to suicide. The system that the courts have since described as one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Robin was never actually charged with theft. Not once. A former Fujitsu employee has since come forward and confirmed the Horizon data used at his trial had been compromised. The Post Office knew it. There was no DNA on the murder weapon. A clump of unidentified hair found at the scene was never tested. It disappeared. Police admitted that was a serious professional failure. The pathology evidence on the time of death has been challenged by independent experts. What the prosecution had was a theory. Built on a broken computer. Presented to a jury who had no reason to doubt the Post Office. Robin has appealed four times. The CCRC has said no four times. A Sky documentary aired Christmas 2025. Former sub-postmasters who were themselves destroyed by Horizon are now publicly demanding he gets a retrial. Lee Castleton OBE is one of them. Empowering the Innocent (ETI) and The Justice Gap @justicegap.bsky.social have both covered this case in depth. A new CCRC case manager has been appointed. Robin is 60 years old. He has been inside for 15 years. His family have spent 15 years fighting for him. His sister says he does not want early release. He wants to stand in court, face the evidence, and prove he is innocent. That is not what a guilty man asks for. The Post Office corrupted evidence. The prosecution used that evidence to convict a man of murder. The body that is supposed to correct miscarriages of justice has blocked him at every turn. If the system was this broken for hundreds of financial cases, what makes anyone confident it worked properly in this one?

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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.

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'My family were abused in the street.' Lee Castleton says he and his family are still 'picking up pieces' of their lives after he was ordered to repay a shortfall of £25,000 as part of the Post Office scandal.

'My family were abused in the street.' Lee Castleton says he and his family are still 'picking up pieces' of their lives after he was ordered to repay a shortfall of £25,000 as part of the Post Office scandal.

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$PARMOD KALIA IS DEAD He died on 13 March 2026, aged 67, still waiting for the full compensation he was owed. Owed for a crime he never committed. Parmod Kalia ran a Post Office branch in Orpington for 11 years. Clean record, steady business, nothing unusual. Then Horizon showed up and decided he owed £22,000 he never took. He was accused of theft in 2001. Investigators got a confession out of him. He said later it was signed in fear, not guilt. He pleaded guilty because that is what people do when the system makes resistance cost more than surrender. He got 6 months in prison. It took until 2021 for Southwark Crown Court to quash the conviction. Post Office didn't even oppose the appeal. Twenty years to undo what one honest look at the evidence should have caught in a week. Through all of it Kalia worked as a foster carer, giving stability to vulnerable children while carrying a criminal record he was too ashamed to mention to the people closest to him. His friend Tim Brentnall said he brought calmness and warmth to whatever room he walked into. Funny how the system managed the opposite for him. Then came the cancer diagnosis. He told ITV News he was taking it one day at a time, hoping his final redress payment might arrive before he ran out of days. It didn't arrive in time. He was one of more than 4,300 subpostmasters still waiting on full and final compensation when he died. Post Office said if there had been retrials there was still a reasonable prospect of conviction, so Kalia wasn't owed full compensation for malicious prosecution. Read that twice. A wrongly convicted, terminally ill man was told the theoretical odds still weren't fully in his favour, so the payment could wait. Meanwhile MPs pointed out that Fujitsu Fujitsu UK still hasn't contributed a single penny to the nearly £1.5 billion redress bill for a scandal it built and sold to the Post Office. Not one penny. They can engineer software that jails hundreds of innocent people but apparently a bank transfer is beyond their technical capability. More than 700 branch managers were convicted between 1999 and 2015 because of Horizon's fictional shortfalls. Only a fraction have full settlements. The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry keeps recording the names of people who died waiting. Kalia is just the latest entry on a list that should never have existed. He wasn't asking for a favour. He was asking for what he was owed, for a crime he never committed, from a system that has known it was broken for over a decade. SOURCES BBC News (UK) ITV News ComputerWeekly Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry$

PARMOD KALIA IS DEAD He died on 13 March 2026, aged 67, still waiting for the full compensation he was owed. Owed for a crime he never committed. Parmod Kalia ran a Post Office branch in Orpington for 11 years. Clean record, steady business, nothing unusual. Then Horizon showed up and decided he owed £22,000 he never took. He was accused of theft in 2001. Investigators got a confession out of him. He said later it was signed in fear, not guilt. He pleaded guilty because that is what people do when the system makes resistance cost more than surrender. He got 6 months in prison. It took until 2021 for Southwark Crown Court to quash the conviction. Post Office didn't even oppose the appeal. Twenty years to undo what one honest look at the evidence should have caught in a week. Through all of it Kalia worked as a foster carer, giving stability to vulnerable children while carrying a criminal record he was too ashamed to mention to the people closest to him. His friend Tim Brentnall said he brought calmness and warmth to whatever room he walked into. Funny how the system managed the opposite for him. Then came the cancer diagnosis. He told ITV News he was taking it one day at a time, hoping his final redress payment might arrive before he ran out of days. It didn't arrive in time. He was one of more than 4,300 subpostmasters still waiting on full and final compensation when he died. Post Office said if there had been retrials there was still a reasonable prospect of conviction, so Kalia wasn't owed full compensation for malicious prosecution. Read that twice. A wrongly convicted, terminally ill man was told the theoretical odds still weren't fully in his favour, so the payment could wait. Meanwhile MPs pointed out that Fujitsu Fujitsu UK still hasn't contributed a single penny to the nearly £1.5 billion redress bill for a scandal it built and sold to the Post Office. Not one penny. They can engineer software that jails hundreds of innocent people but apparently a bank transfer is beyond their technical capability. More than 700 branch managers were convicted between 1999 and 2015 because of Horizon's fictional shortfalls. Only a fraction have full settlements. The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry keeps recording the names of people who died waiting. Kalia is just the latest entry on a list that should never have existed. He wasn't asking for a favour. He was asking for what he was owed, for a crime he never committed, from a system that has known it was broken for over a decade. SOURCES BBC News (UK) ITV News ComputerWeekly Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry

Artur Nadolny

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In the last Labour govt Pat McFadden was the minister in charge of the Post Office for a time, & he admits that issues around the Horizon scandal did cross his desk, but he says all the blame lay with the Post Office. How convenient! #bbclaurak

In the last Labour govt Pat McFadden was the minister in charge of the Post Office for a time, & he admits that issues around the Horizon scandal did cross his desk, but he says all the blame lay with the Post Office. How convenient! #bbclaurak

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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 Post Office said it apologises "unequivocally for the hurt and suffering" it caused "during the Horizon IT Scandal", while Fujitsu said it would not be "appropriate" for it to comment while the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry was ongoing.

"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 Post Office said it apologises "unequivocally for the hurt and suffering" it caused "during the Horizon IT Scandal", while Fujitsu said it would not be "appropriate" for it to comment while the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry was ongoing.

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POST OFFICE PUT A CHILD IN PRISON In 2002 Tracy Felstead Tracy Felstead was a 19 year old counter clerk. She worked at the Camberwell Green Post Office branch in south London. She had left school and was proud to have a job with a company everyone trusted. Then the Post Office's Horizon computer system showed a shortfall of £11,503 at her till. Nobody checked if the machine was wrong. Post Office investigators decided Tracy was a thief. She was interviewed under caution at Peckham police station. Investigators asked her to prove she did not steal money that a computer had simply invented. They even asked if her own family had pressured her to steal. Her family scraped together the £11,500 and paid it back. They were told this could help her avoid prison. It did not work. Tracy was convicted of theft and false accounting at trial. The judge sent her to a young offender institution for 6 months. She was still a teenager. Inside, she saw things no 19 year old should see. She has said the memory of prison still comes back to her now, decades later. She has spoken about trying to take her own life twice because of what happened to her. Years later the stress caught up with her body too. She suffered a neurological breakdown that left her temporarily paralysed on one side. Tracy was not alone. Horizon was built and run by Fujitsu Fujitsu UK. Between 2000 and 2014 the Post Office prosecuted more than 700 sub-postmasters and counter staff using data from that same system. It is now officially called the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history. Paula Vennells Paula Vennells ran the Post Office as chief executive from 2012 to 2019. Under her watch the organisation spent millions fighting the very people it had wrongly accused, rather than admitting the software was broken. Over 1 million people later signed a petition demanding she hand back her CBE. The Court of Appeal finally quashed Tracy's conviction in 2021. 19 years after she went to prison. Nobody at the Post Office or Fujitsu spent a single night in a cell for it. In 2023 Tracy sat down with Post Office bosses in Parliament, with the support of her then MP Lucy Allan Lucy Allan. She told the chief executive to his face how to fix the compensation process. She later gave evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, chaired by Sir Wyn Williams, about what six months in a cell at 19 actually cost her. A faulty computer got 16 years of trust from an entire national institution. A teenage counter clerk got a criminal record, a prison sentence, and a mental health battle that has lasted her whole adult life. Same script every time. Protect the system first. Apologise decades later, if at all.. SOURCES: Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry BBC News (UK) The Guardian and many others.

POST OFFICE PUT A CHILD IN PRISON In 2002 Tracy Felstead Tracy Felstead was a 19 year old counter clerk. She worked at the Camberwell Green Post Office branch in south London. She had left school and was proud to have a job with a company everyone trusted. Then the Post Office's Horizon computer system showed a shortfall of £11,503 at her till. Nobody checked if the machine was wrong. Post Office investigators decided Tracy was a thief. She was interviewed under caution at Peckham police station. Investigators asked her to prove she did not steal money that a computer had simply invented. They even asked if her own family had pressured her to steal. Her family scraped together the £11,500 and paid it back. They were told this could help her avoid prison. It did not work. Tracy was convicted of theft and false accounting at trial. The judge sent her to a young offender institution for 6 months. She was still a teenager. Inside, she saw things no 19 year old should see. She has said the memory of prison still comes back to her now, decades later. She has spoken about trying to take her own life twice because of what happened to her. Years later the stress caught up with her body too. She suffered a neurological breakdown that left her temporarily paralysed on one side. Tracy was not alone. Horizon was built and run by Fujitsu Fujitsu UK. Between 2000 and 2014 the Post Office prosecuted more than 700 sub-postmasters and counter staff using data from that same system. It is now officially called the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history. Paula Vennells Paula Vennells ran the Post Office as chief executive from 2012 to 2019. Under her watch the organisation spent millions fighting the very people it had wrongly accused, rather than admitting the software was broken. Over 1 million people later signed a petition demanding she hand back her CBE. The Court of Appeal finally quashed Tracy's conviction in 2021. 19 years after she went to prison. Nobody at the Post Office or Fujitsu spent a single night in a cell for it. In 2023 Tracy sat down with Post Office bosses in Parliament, with the support of her then MP Lucy Allan Lucy Allan. She told the chief executive to his face how to fix the compensation process. She later gave evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, chaired by Sir Wyn Williams, about what six months in a cell at 19 actually cost her. A faulty computer got 16 years of trust from an entire national institution. A teenage counter clerk got a criminal record, a prison sentence, and a mental health battle that has lasted her whole adult life. Same script every time. Protect the system first. Apologise decades later, if at all.. SOURCES: Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry BBC News (UK) The Guardian and many others.

Artur Nadolny

14,352 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

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

47,605 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

Tupac was a performer through and through. At his core, he was an actor, a poet, and a thinker—not a gangster. Sure, he rapped about the streets and the struggles that came with them, but that was more about telling the stories of the people around him than living that life himself. He had the smarts and the charisma to pull people in, whether it was on stage, on screen, or in his music. He trained at the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he honed his craft, showing he was born to entertain. The "gangster" image? That was more about the industry and the media pushing a narrative than who Tupac really was at heart. Tupac was an artist first, using his voice and talent to speak for the people, share their pain, and make you feel something. He wasn’t about the gangster life—he was about the art and the message.

Tupac was a performer through and through. At his core, he was an actor, a poet, and a thinker—not a gangster. Sure, he rapped about the streets and the struggles that came with them, but that was more about telling the stories of the people around him than living that life himself. He had the smarts and the charisma to pull people in, whether it was on stage, on screen, or in his music. He trained at the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he honed his craft, showing he was born to entertain. The "gangster" image? That was more about the industry and the media pushing a narrative than who Tupac really was at heart. Tupac was an artist first, using his voice and talent to speak for the people, share their pain, and make you feel something. He wasn’t about the gangster life—he was about the art and the message.

Gerry

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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.

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.

Artur Nadolny

26,082 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

BROKE AT 18, HONOURED AT 30 Christopher Head OBE Christopher Head OBE took over the West Boldon Post Office near Sunderland in 2006. He was 18. Youngest sub-postmaster in Britain. A teenager running a business while his mates were still working out how to do their own laundry. By 2014 the Horizon system, built by Fujitsu and treated by the Post Office as basically infallible, decided Chris owed £88,000. Not because he stole but because a computer said so, and apparently that was good enough for one of Britain's most trusted institutions. Post Office questioned him under caution. Searched his home. Treated him like a criminal for months. Then dropped the case because there was nothing there. You would think an apology might follow. Instead the Post Office turned around and chased him through the civil courts for the same £88,000 it could never prove he took. His name was mud in his own town. He could not find work locally after being accused of robbing his own community. So he left. He rebuilt his life in Greece, because starting over somewhere nobody had read the headlines was easier than staying where everyone had. Years later Chris Head OBE received his honour for campaigning on behalf of more than 400 other sub-postmasters caught in the same scandal. A genuinely remarkable thing to do for people the state had already failed once. He said the honour does not pay the bills, which might be the politest way anyone has ever described getting a medal instead of the money they are actually owed. This is the Horizon scandal in one life. A teenager builds a business. A faulty computer system destroys it. The institution that built the faulty system chases him for cash instead of checking its own code. He rebuilds abroad and comes home anyway to fight for everyone else the same system chewed up. Britain loves handing out medals for surviving things it should never have allowed to happen in the first place. SOURCES ITV News Tyne Tees Sunderland Echo BBC News (UK)

BROKE AT 18, HONOURED AT 30 Christopher Head OBE Christopher Head OBE took over the West Boldon Post Office near Sunderland in 2006. He was 18. Youngest sub-postmaster in Britain. A teenager running a business while his mates were still working out how to do their own laundry. By 2014 the Horizon system, built by Fujitsu and treated by the Post Office as basically infallible, decided Chris owed £88,000. Not because he stole but because a computer said so, and apparently that was good enough for one of Britain's most trusted institutions. Post Office questioned him under caution. Searched his home. Treated him like a criminal for months. Then dropped the case because there was nothing there. You would think an apology might follow. Instead the Post Office turned around and chased him through the civil courts for the same £88,000 it could never prove he took. His name was mud in his own town. He could not find work locally after being accused of robbing his own community. So he left. He rebuilt his life in Greece, because starting over somewhere nobody had read the headlines was easier than staying where everyone had. Years later Chris Head OBE received his honour for campaigning on behalf of more than 400 other sub-postmasters caught in the same scandal. A genuinely remarkable thing to do for people the state had already failed once. He said the honour does not pay the bills, which might be the politest way anyone has ever described getting a medal instead of the money they are actually owed. This is the Horizon scandal in one life. A teenager builds a business. A faulty computer system destroys it. The institution that built the faulty system chases him for cash instead of checking its own code. He rebuilds abroad and comes home anyway to fight for everyone else the same system chewed up. Britain loves handing out medals for surviving things it should never have allowed to happen in the first place. SOURCES ITV News Tyne Tees Sunderland Echo BBC News (UK)

Artur Nadolny

49,433 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

#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

11,506 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce

LAW FIRM THAT DESTROYED TRACY MCFADDEN'S CASE ALSO PAID ED DAVEY 60,000 POUNDS A YEAR Tracy McFadden ran a shop and post office in Sandiacre Derbyshire for 14 years. She put 250k pounds of her own money into building it in 2002. Business was going so well she was planning to expand. Then the Horizon system flagged a discrepancy and her life fell apart. Tracy McFadden did the responsible thing. She called the Horizon helpline for help. The debt magically doubled to 2,000 pounds overnight. Then it kept climbing. 4,000. Then 16,000. Tracy had no way to check the system herself because she was never given proper access to it. She was told to accept the debt or lose the right to trade. So she accepted a debt that never existed just to keep her doors open. She only escaped a criminal prosecution because witnesses vouched for her, including the wife of a regional Post Office manager. Her contract was terminated in 2014. The business was gone. The reputation was gone. Tracy McFadden went from running a thriving shop to what she describes as begging for benefits. Now here is the SHOCKING part. This was never just a broken piece of software. It was a chain of people who knew and chose their careers over the truth. Post Office executives signed off on prosecutions built on a system riddled with bugs. Fujitsu built that system and stayed quiet for years while it destroyed lives. Ed Davey was postal affairs minister from 2010 to 2012 while all of this was unfolding. When campaigner Alan Bates asked him to meet about serious concerns with Horizon, Ed Davey told him a meeting would not serve any purpose. Years later Ed Davey took a paid consultancy with Herbert Smith Freehills, the very law firm hired by the Post Office to fight the sub postmasters in court, earning 275k pounds for his time there. His brother Henry Davey was a corporate partner at the same firm. What a coincidence. Tracy McFadden was one of 555 claimants in the group litigation against the Post Office. They won. Technically. Legal costs swallowed most of the settlement before the victims ever saw a penny of it. A computer did not do this to Tracy McFadden. People did. People who had every chance to stop it and chose their fees and their careers instead. SOURCES BBC News (UK) ITV News ComputerWeekly Nick Wallis

LAW FIRM THAT DESTROYED TRACY MCFADDEN'S CASE ALSO PAID ED DAVEY 60,000 POUNDS A YEAR Tracy McFadden ran a shop and post office in Sandiacre Derbyshire for 14 years. She put 250k pounds of her own money into building it in 2002. Business was going so well she was planning to expand. Then the Horizon system flagged a discrepancy and her life fell apart. Tracy McFadden did the responsible thing. She called the Horizon helpline for help. The debt magically doubled to 2,000 pounds overnight. Then it kept climbing. 4,000. Then 16,000. Tracy had no way to check the system herself because she was never given proper access to it. She was told to accept the debt or lose the right to trade. So she accepted a debt that never existed just to keep her doors open. She only escaped a criminal prosecution because witnesses vouched for her, including the wife of a regional Post Office manager. Her contract was terminated in 2014. The business was gone. The reputation was gone. Tracy McFadden went from running a thriving shop to what she describes as begging for benefits. Now here is the SHOCKING part. This was never just a broken piece of software. It was a chain of people who knew and chose their careers over the truth. Post Office executives signed off on prosecutions built on a system riddled with bugs. Fujitsu built that system and stayed quiet for years while it destroyed lives. Ed Davey was postal affairs minister from 2010 to 2012 while all of this was unfolding. When campaigner Alan Bates asked him to meet about serious concerns with Horizon, Ed Davey told him a meeting would not serve any purpose. Years later Ed Davey took a paid consultancy with Herbert Smith Freehills, the very law firm hired by the Post Office to fight the sub postmasters in court, earning 275k pounds for his time there. His brother Henry Davey was a corporate partner at the same firm. What a coincidence. Tracy McFadden was one of 555 claimants in the group litigation against the Post Office. They won. Technically. Legal costs swallowed most of the settlement before the victims ever saw a penny of it. A computer did not do this to Tracy McFadden. People did. People who had every chance to stop it and chose their fees and their careers instead. SOURCES BBC News (UK) ITV News ComputerWeekly Nick Wallis

Artur Nadolny

40,672 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

#WATCH | On the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei, his Representative in India, Dr Abdul Majid Hakeem Ilahi, says, "Ayatollah Khamenei was in his office and several times the security asked him to move from his office to another city, and he refused. He said if you could move 90 million Iranians to another city, I will move after that. They asked him, we will provide you with a basement to be safe for you but he said if you could provide and build a basement for all Iranians... He remained in his office, in his house, and in the morning, the aircraft of the Zionist regime and America attacked his office. He, his wife, his daughter-in-law and some of his nephew pass away..."

#WATCH | On the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei, his Representative in India, Dr Abdul Majid Hakeem Ilahi, says, "Ayatollah Khamenei was in his office and several times the security asked him to move from his office to another city, and he refused. He said if you could move 90 million Iranians to another city, I will move after that. They asked him, we will provide you with a basement to be safe for you but he said if you could provide and build a basement for all Iranians... He remained in his office, in his house, and in the morning, the aircraft of the Zionist regime and America attacked his office. He, his wife, his daughter-in-law and some of his nephew pass away..."

ANI

6,138,814 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce

Elijah shares the story of when he was told his wife wanted a divorce. Elijah claims he was having a business meeting with his editor-in-chief and his business manager at his house when he was asked to come inside and was greeted by his extended in-law family. Elijah claims he wasn't even drinking at this time or using any substances. He says he was told she wanted a divorce and her family told him not to get violent and accused him of using drugs. Elijah then claims that his in laws went after his investors and says they were sent a dossier created by his brother in law and Milo. Elijah says that this was all a plot by his in laws to convince his wife to leave him because he didn't have any money after ruining his reputation. Elijah says that his in laws tried to kidnap his children before saying he is legally not allowed to say it...?

Elijah shares the story of when he was told his wife wanted a divorce. Elijah claims he was having a business meeting with his editor-in-chief and his business manager at his house when he was asked to come inside and was greeted by his extended in-law family. Elijah claims he wasn't even drinking at this time or using any substances. He says he was told she wanted a divorce and her family told him not to get violent and accused him of using drugs. Elijah then claims that his in laws went after his investors and says they were sent a dossier created by his brother in law and Milo. Elijah says that this was all a plot by his in laws to convince his wife to leave him because he didn't have any money after ruining his reputation. Elijah says that his in laws tried to kidnap his children before saying he is legally not allowed to say it...?

Elijah Schaffer Groyper

91,420 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

IS THE POST OFFICE WAITING FOR BETTY BROWN TO DIE BEFORE IT PAYS UP?? Betty Brown ran the Annfield Plain Post Office in County Durham with her husband Oswall from 1985 to 2003. Good business. Nice customers. No problems. Then Horizon arrived in 2000, built by Fujitsu Fujitsu UK, and the till started lying. First night it was £500 short. Within weeks it was £1,500 to £1,600 a week, every week. Betty and Oswall paid every shortfall out of their own pocket because the alternative was being branded a thief. They handed over more than £50,000. Betty says the real figure was closer to £100,000. That was their retirement money, poured into a hole created by software nobody at the Post Office bothered to question. Betty was never prosecuted. Small mercy. Instead a manager decided she was too old for the job and needed replacing with someone who understood the technology. She was pushed out in 2003. Oswall died a year later. Betty believes the stress helped kill him, and says his dying thoughts were about whether the Post Office had finally been in touch. She spent the next two decades fighting for compensation while the people who built and defended a broken system kept their salaries, their bonuses and their pensions. In 2025, aged 92, Betty finally settled her claim. In 2026 she received an OBE from King Charles at Windsor Castle. She used the moment to tell him that money does not equal justice, and asked him to pass that on to the Prime Minister. She still had not received a single penny of her settlement by the time she collected the medal. That is the British state's idea of closure. Ruin someone for over two decades then hand them a piece of metal before the cheque clears. Betty says every subpostmaster caught up in the Horizon scandal deserves the same recognition she got. She is right. None of them asked for a medal. They asked for their money and their names back. SOURCES BBC News (UK) ITV News ComputerWeekly Nick Wallis Karl Flinders

IS THE POST OFFICE WAITING FOR BETTY BROWN TO DIE BEFORE IT PAYS UP?? Betty Brown ran the Annfield Plain Post Office in County Durham with her husband Oswall from 1985 to 2003. Good business. Nice customers. No problems. Then Horizon arrived in 2000, built by Fujitsu Fujitsu UK, and the till started lying. First night it was £500 short. Within weeks it was £1,500 to £1,600 a week, every week. Betty and Oswall paid every shortfall out of their own pocket because the alternative was being branded a thief. They handed over more than £50,000. Betty says the real figure was closer to £100,000. That was their retirement money, poured into a hole created by software nobody at the Post Office bothered to question. Betty was never prosecuted. Small mercy. Instead a manager decided she was too old for the job and needed replacing with someone who understood the technology. She was pushed out in 2003. Oswall died a year later. Betty believes the stress helped kill him, and says his dying thoughts were about whether the Post Office had finally been in touch. She spent the next two decades fighting for compensation while the people who built and defended a broken system kept their salaries, their bonuses and their pensions. In 2025, aged 92, Betty finally settled her claim. In 2026 she received an OBE from King Charles at Windsor Castle. She used the moment to tell him that money does not equal justice, and asked him to pass that on to the Prime Minister. She still had not received a single penny of her settlement by the time she collected the medal. That is the British state's idea of closure. Ruin someone for over two decades then hand them a piece of metal before the cheque clears. Betty says every subpostmaster caught up in the Horizon scandal deserves the same recognition she got. She is right. None of them asked for a medal. They asked for their money and their names back. SOURCES BBC News (UK) ITV News ComputerWeekly Nick Wallis Karl Flinders

Artur Nadolny

73,287 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

Issues of paternity have shaped our society for generations, especially in Zimbabwe. They did not start today. I remember going to a funeral with my father in the 1990s, and as we sat around the fire the men began sharing stories. One of them has stayed with me ever since. A Zimbabwean doctor had married a nurse, and they struggled to have children. As usual, when there is no child, the blame was placed on the woman. She went to see her own doctor, who told her plainly that she was not the problem, and advised her to bring her husband for testing. The husband refused, as many Zimbabwean men tend to do. Their marriage eventually collapsed, with the man insisting he could not be the problem because he had a child with another woman before marrying the nurse. That woman, he said, was also a doctor, and he was raising that child. After the divorce, the nurse remarried another doctor, and she immediately fell pregnant. Because it was a tight medical community, the whole situation became a talking point. The ex-husband had loudly declared that his former wife was barren, yet here she was having one child after another, three in total, with her new husband. Meanwhile, the ex-husband remarried, and again there were no children. One day the ex-husband and his former wife met at a gathering. During a casual conversation, as people who once knew each other, she told him directly that he was raising a child who was not his. She told him that he had no capacity to father a child and that if he finally went for tests, he would discover the truth. She reminded him how he had insulted her and her parents, and how he had refused to listen. The revelation shook him. He went for tests, and it was confirmed that he was the problem. He had spent seventeen years looking after a child who was not his. The moral of the story is simple, and I always stress this when mentoring young people. When in doubt, check. In fact, even without doubt, check. A DNA test at birth saves you from future heartbreak. Many men are raising children who are not theirs. Some women know exactly what they are doing. Others genuinely do not know because their relationships overlapped before they settled down. In those cases, even the woman cannot be sure who the father is. So when you have a child, get a DNA test. If you ask for one and a woman becomes defensive or resistant, that is a major red flag. At that point, the test is no longer optional, it is necessary. That is the reality of life today. As they say, trust is beautiful, but DNA is confirmation. In this life we live, hope is not a strategy when it comes to your children, so test your child and protect your future, as the saying goes. I have DNA stories that I could share for a whole year. If compulsory DNA testing was demanded of all of us today, you will be shocked by what will come out. This brother in the video is now going through denial. He has been told the truth, but he is still in shock, which is why he is asking for silly things from this woman. It is hard for any man to discover that the child he believed was his belongs to another man. That is why DNA testing is a necessity and why it should be compulsory.

Issues of paternity have shaped our society for generations, especially in Zimbabwe. They did not start today. I remember going to a funeral with my father in the 1990s, and as we sat around the fire the men began sharing stories. One of them has stayed with me ever since. A Zimbabwean doctor had married a nurse, and they struggled to have children. As usual, when there is no child, the blame was placed on the woman. She went to see her own doctor, who told her plainly that she was not the problem, and advised her to bring her husband for testing. The husband refused, as many Zimbabwean men tend to do. Their marriage eventually collapsed, with the man insisting he could not be the problem because he had a child with another woman before marrying the nurse. That woman, he said, was also a doctor, and he was raising that child. After the divorce, the nurse remarried another doctor, and she immediately fell pregnant. Because it was a tight medical community, the whole situation became a talking point. The ex-husband had loudly declared that his former wife was barren, yet here she was having one child after another, three in total, with her new husband. Meanwhile, the ex-husband remarried, and again there were no children. One day the ex-husband and his former wife met at a gathering. During a casual conversation, as people who once knew each other, she told him directly that he was raising a child who was not his. She told him that he had no capacity to father a child and that if he finally went for tests, he would discover the truth. She reminded him how he had insulted her and her parents, and how he had refused to listen. The revelation shook him. He went for tests, and it was confirmed that he was the problem. He had spent seventeen years looking after a child who was not his. The moral of the story is simple, and I always stress this when mentoring young people. When in doubt, check. In fact, even without doubt, check. A DNA test at birth saves you from future heartbreak. Many men are raising children who are not theirs. Some women know exactly what they are doing. Others genuinely do not know because their relationships overlapped before they settled down. In those cases, even the woman cannot be sure who the father is. So when you have a child, get a DNA test. If you ask for one and a woman becomes defensive or resistant, that is a major red flag. At that point, the test is no longer optional, it is necessary. That is the reality of life today. As they say, trust is beautiful, but DNA is confirmation. In this life we live, hope is not a strategy when it comes to your children, so test your child and protect your future, as the saying goes. I have DNA stories that I could share for a whole year. If compulsory DNA testing was demanded of all of us today, you will be shocked by what will come out. This brother in the video is now going through denial. He has been told the truth, but he is still in shock, which is why he is asking for silly things from this woman. It is hard for any man to discover that the child he believed was his belongs to another man. That is why DNA testing is a necessity and why it should be compulsory.

Hopewell Chin’ono

68,177 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce