Post Office showed ‘incompetence and malevolence’ amid Horizon scandal, says minister
Hundreds of convictions remain extent some of those convictions will have relied on the evidence of the discredited Horizon system others will have been the result of appalling faor failures of the post office investigation and prosecution functions the evidence which is already emerging from SN Williams inquiry has shown not
Only incompetence but malevolence in many of their actions this was evidence which was not available to the courts when they made their decisions on individual cases
The Post Office showed ‘incompetence and malevolence’ during the wrongful convictions of hundreds of subpostmasters accused of committing fraud, a Minister has said.
Kevin Hollinrake made the comments during an Urgent Question to the House of Commons on the government’s plans to redress the convictions.
In the early-2000s, more than 700 Post Office workers were wrongfully convicted of committing fraud due to a glitch from the Fujitsu Horizon software used.
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6 comments
NOT ALLOWED TO PUT A THUMBS UP
It's rather like the incompetence and malevolence that the government has shown over Covid vaccines, and continues to show.
The corrupt company which is now the PO run by tax stealing criminals was privatised by the Liedems & Toxic Tories who are now ordering large scale investigations for mass corruption !!!
Establishment cover upas always
CEO woman should be in prison, not working in the NHS now! Outrageous!
Incorrect
It's showed gross misconduct, negligence and committed fraud
It's all been one big Cover up