Redwurzel
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I could not believe was I was listening to yesterday when Radio 5 ran a story about Post Office fraud cases. It appears 550 postmasters were prosecuted for fraud over a period of years in the noughties i.e. stealing money from the Post Office. The evidence was from the Post Office software called Horizon that showed the post masters figures did not balance. All 550 denied stealing all were found guilty. In December 2019 the Post Office admitted the software was faulty after many years of denying it. On Radio 5 a women was interviews who was sent to prison for 6 months. She worked for a Post Office and was accused of stealing £11,500. She was only 19 when sent to prison. She was sent to Holloway Prison and has an horrendous time with other prisoner serving life sentences. She always said she was innocence and her family paid £11,500 to the Post Office, Because she pleaded not guilty the judge sent her to prison to teach her a lesson. Despite the Post Office saying they made a mistake her criminal record has not being cleared. She is still traumatised from what has happened to her.
Surely when these cases started appearing with the introduction of the new Post Office software, the Post Office managers must have realised something strange was happening i.e. 550 post masters were on the fiddle (we are talking thousands of pounds). Also the legal profession and judges. I was always taught there is no software that is ever 100% error free and that was by the guy that started Logica a major software company in the 1980s.
Surely when these cases started appearing with the introduction of the new Post Office software, the Post Office managers must have realised something strange was happening i.e. 550 post masters were on the fiddle (we are talking thousands of pounds). Also the legal profession and judges. I was always taught there is no software that is ever 100% error free and that was by the guy that started Logica a major software company in the 1980s.