Wow!!!
I can't say I've ever been too interested in all this hoo-ha over this Post Office thingamajig but its been on the news a lot over the last few days and the ITV 'play' has just won some award or something, so I thought I would have a nosey into what all the fuss was about.
I was going to watch the ITV reconstruction but luckily found the BBC Panorama documentary instead which interviewed the actual people involved, including the forensic auditors and MP's as well as the sub-postmasters themselves.
The bottom line was that the Post Office knowingly threw these people under the bus, knowing they were innocent, to protect the company because they knew that the computer system the sub postmasters used was at fault, that people could access it unknown to the sub postmasters themselves who thought they had sole access to it.
Basically innocent people had their life's ruined - at least one committed suicide because of it - cover ups at the highest levels were made at the Post Office and (although it is down played quite a bit) the government must have been aware of the later cover ups and therefore must have been to some degree complicit in them.
Jaw dropping stuff.
I highly recommend you to spend an hour of your time watching the Panorama programme even if this subject doesn't interest you as such because it is a true life story as to how people don't 'do the right thing' when they need to and how innocent life's are ruined because of it.
And if that doesn't rock your boat - it is simply a very, very good story to watch!
I'd also like to give a shout out to the Parliamentary Committee that ultimately brought the truth out by holding an inquiry into what had happened.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0016t20/panorama-the-post-office-scandal
I can't say I've ever been too interested in all this hoo-ha over this Post Office thingamajig but its been on the news a lot over the last few days and the ITV 'play' has just won some award or something, so I thought I would have a nosey into what all the fuss was about.
I was going to watch the ITV reconstruction but luckily found the BBC Panorama documentary instead which interviewed the actual people involved, including the forensic auditors and MP's as well as the sub-postmasters themselves.
The bottom line was that the Post Office knowingly threw these people under the bus, knowing they were innocent, to protect the company because they knew that the computer system the sub postmasters used was at fault, that people could access it unknown to the sub postmasters themselves who thought they had sole access to it.
Basically innocent people had their life's ruined - at least one committed suicide because of it - cover ups at the highest levels were made at the Post Office and (although it is down played quite a bit) the government must have been aware of the later cover ups and therefore must have been to some degree complicit in them.
Jaw dropping stuff.
I highly recommend you to spend an hour of your time watching the Panorama programme even if this subject doesn't interest you as such because it is a true life story as to how people don't 'do the right thing' when they need to and how innocent life's are ruined because of it.
And if that doesn't rock your boat - it is simply a very, very good story to watch!
I'd also like to give a shout out to the Parliamentary Committee that ultimately brought the truth out by holding an inquiry into what had happened.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0016t20/panorama-the-post-office-scandal
Last edited by Sluffy on Mon Jan 08 2024, 15:25; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : typo)