Usually I try to be a peace loving and reasonable person, but this makes my blood boil and I am absolutely fuming!!
For over 20 years, UK sub-postmen and women have been trying to get justice for wrongs done when money went missing due to an IT software bug. Now, in all my professional life I have rarely, if ever, come across software that is totally bug free. The more complex the software, the more likely that it will contain rare bugs. In this case the software was called Horizon and designed by Fujitsu.
When over 700 people had issues with tallying up the money what did the PO do? Fail to investigate and LIE that nobody else had the problem. People at the PO and Fujitsu knew but covered it up. Instead, some went to prison, some were driven to suicide, some were disgraced in the papers and lost their livelihoods. These people were deeply wronged. This is a scandal of epic scale. In my view this is the worst scandal in recent UK history.
Recently, a TV drama has brought the gross injustice these poor people have suffered for many years to the forefront. The people who knew the truth have never, yet, been brought to justice. The woman in charge of the Post Office at the time was even made a CBE (a very high honour in the UK) in 2019. Those responsible must find it hard to sleep at night.
Thankfully, there are several petitions doing the rounds and this is now headline news.
I hope all affected are given very generous payments for all the wrong done to these people and their families and I very much hope all those who knew about this injustice are given long jail sentences. If they are declared bankrupt, so be it.
See https://www.change.org/p/biztradegovuk-post-office-scandal-full-compensation-and-accountability .
If you feel able, please sign both petitions so this is headline news and justice is done.
See also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67899189 .
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