Post Office scandal: Police to deploy 80 detectives for criminal inquiry
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/27/post-office-scandal-police-to-deploy-80-detectives-for-criminal-inquiry
Posted by Codydoc4
Post Office scandal: Police to deploy 80 detectives for criminal inquiry
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/27/post-office-scandal-police-to-deploy-80-detectives-for-criminal-inquiry
Posted by Codydoc4
9 Comments
This is already experiencing progress as glacial as Grenfell.
Everyone involved will have died of old age before anything happens
Somebody should also investigate the police for ignoring an extortion racket operating in the open under their noses.
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It’s a home run for the incoming government. I suspect things will actually happen and people will be put away. The optics are just too good for an incoming government to ignore.
This is fantastic news and those at the top of the Post Office need to be prosecuted.
But we also need to tackle what enabled the Post Office – private prosecutions. From this scandal to train companies prosecuting children for fraud to energy companies harrying homeowners, this mechanism initially used to enable bounty hunting needs to be ended. America has already got rid of private prosecutions, why don’t we wipe this stain off our society?
You know what will happen?
The Fujitsu whistleblower – I forget his name now, the man who quietly approached the subpostmasters and admitted to lying on the witness stand – will be the first person prosecuted for perjury.
Technically he’s guilty, but I absolutely refuse to believe he walked into court without the full blessing of Fujitsu management to lie through his teeth.
The right people haven’t gone to jail yet, I hope they do. Disgraceful behaviour from the Post Office and Fujitsu.
All the victims need to be recompensated WITHOUT the solicitor fees this time. Now that would be a sweet deal, bankrupt the PO, the next gov can buy it back for pennies on the pound and renationalise it.
The victims need to be financially made whole. It should be the number 1 priority.
Having convictions quashed is kind of meaningless when the damage to their livelihoods is already done.
It’s fine that they are looking to investigate in a criminal enquiry but whats the hold up on the compensation?