ComputerWeekly.com’s Post

Fujitsu did more than “miss an opportunity to take action to prevent subpostmasters from being convicted“. Knowing of the weaknesses in Horizon, they were actively complicit in assisting those prosecutions with false evidence.

Even if Fujitsu do pay, that cost will be indirectly paid by tax payers due to reduction of taxes. The whole system is rigged. The tax payers pay a Prime, then pay for the fck ups. Not a single Fujitsu or Post Office Executive will feel any financial burden or pain and Fujitsu will be awarded tens/hundreds of £millions more in gov contracts.

Despite all the convoluted excuses used by the PO's unethical lawyers there is one definitive lack of evidence which should be available to any accounting system which the law should use in any prosecution. You have an input which will have a reference and time stamp which was done at the Post masters terminal that transaction should then be transmitted to the PO system with the same reference and time stamp. If that happens you have a system that is accurate. However lots of things can go wrong , lost data packets, corrupted data packets all causing incorrect balances in the POs system. But what proof was there that the postmasters terminal transaction was received by the PO's system? We know they used remote access to try and correct the problems but that too would have a time stamp or should have. The judges were completely knaive to believe money had gone missing there was NO proof .Any forensic accountant would not have been satisfied money had gone missing. In any police enquiry looking at an accounting fraud the missing money is part of the proof and would be looked for. This basic proof was ignored by the judicial system. The legal system is prone to complicating as much as possible what happened ,that's what lawyers do.

Not enough Karl, Or what they pay in money, will probably win back in government contracts

Our Post Office here had a postal bank when we were young. Fantastic bank! Well, it was closed and another bank bought it over. I was a client in it. The bank had its own outlets - this was a token. Everyone should go to a bank outlet.