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23 apr 2024 #postoffice
A barrister representing sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses has told Sky News there is evidence of faults with some “third-party” services in Post Office branches.
Paul Marshall said problems with the systems, such as ATMs and lottery tickets, had been “overlooked”.
He said that “the scandal extends considerably beyond, greatly beyond, it might be said, the limited focus of bugs in Horizon”.
2 Post Office’s former most senior lawyer ‘doesn’t recall’ meeting on convicted pregnant postmistress
23 apr 2024
Convicting pregnant postmistress hoped to curb ‘Horizon bashing’, the Post Office inquiry has heard.
Seema Misra, a former sub-postmaster, was eight weeks pregnant when found guilty of false accounting and theft in 2010.
An email from Jarnail Singh, a Post Office lawyer, referring to Ms Misra was shown to the inquiry on Tuesday. It said: “It is hoped the case will set a marker to dissuade other defendants from jumping on the Horizon bashing bandwagon.”
Susan Crichton, the Post Office’s former most senior in-house lawyer, confirmed she received the email in Oct 2010, but claimed she didn’t remember any further discussions around the case.
3 Horizon IT Inquiry: Former Post Office head of legal apologises to subpostmasters
23 apr 2024
Former head of legal at Post Office apologises to subpostmasters for their ‘suffering’
The Post Office’s former company secretary Susan Crichton began her evidence to the Horizon IT inquiry by apologising to subpostmasters and their families for their “suffering”.
4 Post Office Inquiry: Fujitsu boss labels editing of witness statements in prosecutions ‘shameful’
19 jan 2024
Fujitsu’s European boss has described the editing of witness statements to defend the Horizon IT system that were used in the prosecutions of subpostmasters as “shameful”.
Paul Patterson told the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry that he was “surprised” that details of bugs, errors and defects (BEDs) in the scandal-hit software were not included in witness statements for criminal proceedings against subpostmasters.
He admitted that BEDs had existed in the system for “nearly two decades” and said the “vast majority” had been shared with the Post Office contemporaneously.
5 Post Office Inquiry: Audience moan as Paula Vennells can’t recall key details | ITV News
24 mei 2024
As former Post Office boss Paula Vennells was questioned for a second day at the UK inquiry, members of the audience groaned in frustration as she failed to recall some key details.
ITV News Reporter Ellie Pitt spoke to one former sub-postmaster who was imprisoned while pregnant, who heard how the Post Office advised that including her in a case review “would be a rag to a bull”.
6 Face Scratch n’ Win Prank
23 mei 2011
Contestants are astonished (and one of them is strangely angry) when they scratch a scratch n’ win ticket only find a picture of their own face staring back at them.
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