London - Oxford St - Latest News - 13 January 2025
Oxford Street in London. The video screen provides adverts and news updates from LBC - a London radio station. The story about Paula Vennells, concerns the 'Post Office Scandal', which has been described as the widest miscarriage of justice in British History.
Hundreds of Post Masters were wrongly prosecuted for crimes of theft, fraud and false accounting that they did not commit. Some went to jail while others were bankrupted. Families broke up under the stress and some committed suicide.
The Post Masters were victims of a faulty computer based accounting system called Horizon - developed by Fujitsu. Horizon had bugs that erroneously showed that some Post Masters were stealing money.
However, it was not simply a defective accounting programme that led to prosecutions and wrongful convictions. The Post Office and Fujitsu lied about known issues with Horizon. Innocent peoples lives were destroyed because of those lies.
The woman on the screen is Paula Vennells. She is a former Chief Executive Officer of Post Office Limited. She was the 'Post Office Boss', during part of the period when the false prosecutions were taking place. It has become clear that she, along with others at the Post Office and Fujitsu, deliberately took measures to conceal the problems with Horizon.
Some of the victims, of the 'Post Office Scandal' are now suggesting that those who took part in the conspiracy that wrecked their lives, should face criminal charges themselves.
London - Oxford St - Latest News - 13 January 2025
Oxford Street in London. The video screen provides adverts and news updates from LBC - a London radio station. The story about Paula Vennells, concerns the 'Post Office Scandal', which has been described as the widest miscarriage of justice in British History.
Hundreds of Post Masters were wrongly prosecuted for crimes of theft, fraud and false accounting that they did not commit. Some went to jail while others were bankrupted. Families broke up under the stress and some committed suicide.
The Post Masters were victims of a faulty computer based accounting system called Horizon - developed by Fujitsu. Horizon had bugs that erroneously showed that some Post Masters were stealing money.
However, it was not simply a defective accounting programme that led to prosecutions and wrongful convictions. The Post Office and Fujitsu lied about known issues with Horizon. Innocent peoples lives were destroyed because of those lies.
The woman on the screen is Paula Vennells. She is a former Chief Executive Officer of Post Office Limited. She was the 'Post Office Boss', during part of the period when the false prosecutions were taking place. It has become clear that she, along with others at the Post Office and Fujitsu, deliberately took measures to conceal the problems with Horizon.
Some of the victims, of the 'Post Office Scandal' are now suggesting that those who took part in the conspiracy that wrecked their lives, should face criminal charges themselves.