Justice versus Conscience

When you listen to the above video in which the Post Office officials speak, you come to a startling realization.
There are people who offer unbelievable explanations.

Of course, there is the undeniable history, how everything came about regarding the Horizon IT project. This can be expressed by the idiom ‘Out of the frying pan into the fire.’ It expresses the idea of moving from one difficult or undesirable situation to another that’s even worse.

Nick Wallis’s book is essential in conclusively demonstrating, across over 500 pages, that approximately 1000 innocent Subpostmasters were prosecuted and convicted based on an assumption for which there was no basis whatsoever.

We are dealing with a pattern that is found in thousands of individual cases of people ending up in an artificial context. Essentially, there’s a lack of any form of help to reach a resolution through normal human interaction. So to speak, by snapping one’s fingers or gradually, for something that is quite bizarre or something that cannot occur.

From the beginning of the book, Part 1, page 3, Nick Wallis describes what happened to 17-year-old recent graduate Tracy Felstead. It’s unbelievable how in a behemoth of a company with 20,000 Post Office locations, which has existed since 1660, employees are treated purely deceptively.

It’s a book that one should read.

Coincidence played a role, including the successful crowdfunding that enabled Nick Wallis, as an independent journalist, to witness the events and bring his book to fruition.

The intellect, experience, stubbornness, and so forth of Alan Bates, a subpostmaster from North Wales, who was only a postmaster for five and a half years but ultimately persevered for 23 years.

Lord James Arbuthnot, who, from his position in the establishment, could contact anyone directly, including CEO Paula Vennels, who played a conspicuously deceitful role.

Ultimately, Mr. Bates’s lawsuit, a class-action lawsuit involving 555 subpostmasters against the unlimited resources of the Post Office, funded by an investment company with unlimited financial resources.

This was the moment when the Post Office lost control, despite their attempt to challenge Lord Justice Fraizer, which ultimately failed.

The docudrama aired on ITV in early 2024, which led to the inquiry that brought the truth to light. As described in Nick Wallis’s book. He witnessed the events up close and knows the details of the affected subpostmasters he describes.

Justice is problematic because it’s a concept susceptible to manipulation and deceit. 

Justice, while essential, can be unsettling or repellent because it relies on human interpretation and implementation, which can be flawed or subject to bias. It suggests that the concept of justice is not inherently stable or infallible, but rather susceptible to human error and manipulation.

It’s undeniable that The British Post Office Scandal brings to light abundantly that one cannot perceive justice as a perfectly smooth process where resolutions are always achieved.

Even within the realm of justice, there exist individuals devoid of conscience, as elucidated in the excerpt at the outset of the webpage.  ‘Is this still a society?‘

The dubious role played by lawyers in legal proceedings is a shocking reality in the British Post Office Scandal.

Notably, in a particular instance, the judge cautioned the jury, questioning whether theft was involved regardless. This subpostmaster was acquitted due to the fairness observed in the trial, unlike the refrain where the subpostmaster was coerced endlessly into confessing to what clearly hadn’t occurred.

Give it a chance to listen to Alan Bates in the inquiry. Please watch the videos on the webpage titled

Alan Bates Post Office Inquiry: Uncovering Insights.

Please listen also on the webpage Post Office Injustice: Human Stories Unveiled

to the video 1 of ‘Former Post Office boss Alan Cook challenged during inquiry over treatment of jailed sub-postmasters’

Please listen on the same webpage Post Office Injustice: Human Stories Unveiled

to video 4 of ‘Ex-Post Office boss cornered over possible cover-up of Horizon scandal in Inquiry hearing’

The same strong words are used to describe the essence and integrity of the Horizon IT Project, as well as the culture within the Post Office.