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When conscience is absent, justice turns against the innocent. This is how the impossible happened — and how truth was buried by a system without soul.
1 When Systems Lose Their Soul
Justice, at its core, is meant to protect the innocent, uphold truth, and reflect our deepest values as a society. But what happens when conscience — that quiet inner voice of right and wrong — is no longer part of the process? What happens when systems built to serve people begin to serve themselves?
This page is about what should never have happened. About people who were honest, decent, and innocent — yet treated as if none of that mattered. It’s about how a system, devoid of conscience, created outcomes that were not merely unjust, but unthinkable.
What we call “errors” were not accidents. They were the result of choices, pressures, and structures that ignored truth — even when it stood in plain sight. Here, we examine how justice lost its way, and what it means when the impossible becomes real.
Wanneer een rechtsstaat haar geweten verliest – Wanneer systemen hun ziel verliezen
Rechtvaardigheid zou de onschuldigen moeten beschermen, de waarheid moeten dienen en onze diepste waarden weerspiegelen. Maar wat gebeurt er als het geweten — die stille innerlijke stem van goed en kwaad — uit het proces verdwijnt? Wat gebeurt er als systemen die bedoeld zijn om mensen te dienen, zichzelf beginnen te beschermen?
Deze pagina gaat over wat nooit had mogen gebeuren. Over mensen die eerlijk, fatsoenlijk en onschuldig waren — en toch werden behandeld alsof dat er niet toe deed. Het gaat over hoe een systeem, zonder geweten, uitkomsten voortbracht die niet alleen onrechtvaardig waren, maar onvoorstelbaar.
Wat we ‘fouten’ noemen, waren geen vergissingen. Ze waren het gevolg van keuzes, druk en structuren die de waarheid negeerden — zelfs wanneer die glashelder voor ogen stond. Hier onderzoeken we hoe gerechtigheid haar weg verloor, en wat het betekent wanneer het onmogelijke werkelijkheid wordt.
2 Subpostmasters Losing Faith in Compensation Process
The 12th of never’—that’s when many wrongly accused Post Office Subpostmasters reckon they’ll finally receive compensation. In other words: never. Frustrated by the delays, Post Office campaigner Sir Alan Bates has had enough. He’s now urging victims of the Horizon scandal to stand up for themselves and take new legal action against the UK government (Good Morning Britain Broadcast on 16/04/25: the start of the program below) .
‘De twaalfde van nooit’—dat is wanneer veel onterecht beschuldigde Subpostmasters denken dat ze eindelijk hun compensatie zullen krijgen. Met andere woorden: nooit. Geïrriteerd door de eindeloze vertragingen heeft Post Office-campagnevoerder Sir Alan Bates er genoeg van. Hij roept de slachtoffers van het Horizon-schandaal nu op om voor zichzelf op te komen en nieuwe juridische stappen te ondernemen tegen de Britse regering (Good Morning Britain Broadcast on 16/04/25: het begin van het programma hieronder).
Sir Alan Bates Urges Post Office Scandal Victims To Sue The Government
16 apr 2025 #GMB #postofficescandal #postoffice
Post Office campaigner Sir Alan Bates has urged victims of the Horizon scandal to take new legal action against the UK government over delays to compensation.
Former subpostmaster Chris Head is supporting the new legal action as he tells Charlotte and Richard about the impact the scandal had on him.
Broadcast on 16/04/25
Post Office Inquiry: Alan Bates delivers brutal assessment of bosses
9 jan 2024
Over 700 workers were wrongly convicted during the Horizon Post Office scandal. Now, a petition with over a million signatures is calling for Paula Vennells, former CEO of Post Office LTD, to be stripped of her CBE. This comes amongst additional calls for Post Office executives responsible for the scandal to be brought to justice.
GMB is joined by Former Post Office Minister, Paul Scully and Author, Nick Wallis who has written extensively about the scandal.
Broadcast on 09/01/24
Sir Alan and the Unending Post Office Scandal
Subpostmaster campaigners Lee Castleton, Seema Misra and Chris Head will be made OBEs by the Princess Royal at an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on Wednesday afternoon.
The former subpostmasters, who have campaigned for victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal to receive compensation, are among dozens of people being honoured, including former West Midlands mayor Sir Andy Street www. standard. co. uk/ news/ uk/ eddie-marsan-horizon-princess-royal-windsor-castle-british-empire-b1222715.html
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Sir Alan Bates urges Post Office scandal victims to sue the Government
Sir Alan Bates has urged victims of the Horizon scandal to take the Government to court over delays to financial redress.
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Sky News
Sir Alan Bates urges victims of Post Office scandal to take govt to court over compensation delays
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The Times
Alan Bates says Post Office scandal victims still awaiting payouts
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The Telegraph
Sir Alan Bates tells Post Office victims: Take Government to court
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The Mirror
‘I’m on my way to get an OBE but the Post Office scandal fight isn’t over’
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www. bbc. co. uk/ iplayer/ episode/ m002b0ky/ breakfast-16042025
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The @PostOffice drove this man to take his own life, all because they couldn’t hold their hands up and admit wrongdoing. Instead they went down the route of what only can be described as a ‘large scale cover-up’ which has prolonged the suffering of so many but especially the family & friends of Martin. I doubt they will be but I hope all these people involved are reflecting on the reality of what they have done on an industrial scale. My thoughts are with Jayne, Sam, Gina and the rest of the family 💔
3 The Quirky ‘President’ of the National Federation of Subpostmasters Responds to the Inquiry
George Thomson, quirky ‘President’ of the NFSP, responds to the inquiry.
4 Ed Davey – Former Post Office Minister
Hoe Lib Dem-leider – en voormalig Post Office-minister – Ed Davey £275.000 opstreek door te werken voor het advocatenkantoor dat honderden onschuldige Subpostmasters bestreed die van fraude werden beschuldigd.
5 Jarnail Shingh – Senior Post Office Lawyer
Jarnail Singh’s evidence today conveys embarrassment, avoidance, or even the collapse of credibility.
De getuigenis van Jarnail Singh vandaag straalt schaamte, ontwijking en zelfs een ineenstorting van geloofwaardigheid uit.
Ex-Fujitsu Boss Grilled at Post Office Inquiry.
3 mei 2024
A remarkable exchange too place between Jason Beer KC and Jarnail Singh, solicitor and former lawyer at Royal Mail Group and Post Office, after he claimed that he could not print or save documents.
The lawyer was presented with evidence that appeared to show otherwise during a back and forth that saw the KC challenged the lawyer on his testimony over the events that lead to the wrongful convictions of many sub-postmasters.
Was there a cover up under your watch? Flora Page KC corners David Smith at the Post Office inquiry.
28 okt 2024 The papers say
David Smith faces intense questioning from KC Flora Page at the Post Office Inquiry, when he was quizzed on his knowledge of Horizon software defects after the publication of the Ismay report.
Flora Page asked David Smith if he deliberately had his team produce a report for him which would cover up the fact that he knew and everyone in his senior leadership team knew, that Horizons integrity was very much in doubt and that he wanted to cover it up.
6 Angela van den Bogerd, Deputy CEO
In 2006, Chris Head became Britain’s youngest Subpostmaster at the age of 18. He was given the keys to the West Bolden branch near Sunderland. According to an interview he gave to The Sun newspaper, Chris had small discrepancies from the start of his tenure. In 2014, Chris says the Post Office’s Horizon IT system at his branch “went out of control“. One week Chris had a £40,000 shortfall. Within a few weeks it had more than doubled to £88,000. Chris was suspended in 2015 and the Post Office pursued him through the civil courts for the cash they say he owed them. Chris joined up with Alan Bates’ Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance and was one of the 555 claimants in Bates v Post Office.
Since the Bates v Post Office judgments, Chris has campaigned for justice for Subpostmasters, taking a petition with his MP to Downing Street and working with Subpostmasters, ministers, officials, MPs and the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board to try to ensure the various compensation/redress schemes are fair. For a basic introduction to the various compensation/redress schemes available, it might be worth starting on the Post Office corporate website.
This is Chris’s latest letter to the new Post Office minister Gareth Thomas. Some of it is quite technical, but that is partly the point. These compensation schemes are technical, bureaucratic, legalistic, and from Chris’s perspective, unfit for purpose. I have published Chris’s letter with kind permission and made minimal edits for clarity. All the links in the letter and anything in square brackets has been added by me.
7 Tim Parker – Chair of Post Office Limited
7 Post Office Scandal – shifty Tim Parker
6 sep 2024
This is my analysis of the testimony to the Post Office Horizon Inquiry of Post Office Limited Chair Tim Parker.
00:00:00 – Start
00:03:45 – Misplaced confidence
00:15:32 – Tim and the law
00:26:01 – Rearranging things for his comfort
00:26:17 – Shifting context
00:38:34 – Shifting time
00:50:32 – Tim’s scale of justice
01:01:29 – Timothy’s apology
01:05:14 – Conclusion
Minute 33: and read his gospel in this context
Minute 50: it needed a group of brave suppostmaster to take the Post Office to the court
Minute 53:scale
Minute 60: morality – illegal
Minute .. : apologies
Minute .. : Post Office knew everthing: unsafe convictions
8 You Failed Utterly
“There are only two answers: either you failed utterly in your leadership — or the staff underneath you failed utterly to tell you what was going on.”
– Sam Stein KC to Duncan Tait, former CEO of Fujitsu UK & Ireland, Post Office Inquiry
Ex-Fujitsu Boss Grilled at Post Office Inquiry.
14 apr 2025 The papers say
Former Fujitsu UK & Ireland CEO Duncan Tait is grilled at the Post Office Inquiry by Sam Stein KC, representing victims of the Horizon scandal.
Stein delivers a tough line of questioning, accusing Tait of either failing completely in his leadership — or being misled by his own team. The exchange is tense, emotional, and revealing.
Watch this intense moment as pressure builds on Fujitsu leadership to explain why system errors went ignored for so long.
Subpostmasters say their fight is still on as they are made OBEs
17 apr 2025
A former subpostmaster was in tears as she described going from “convicted criminal to an OBE” but said the “fight is still on” for justice despite the recognition.
Seema Misra was eight weeks pregnant with her second child when she was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment in 2010.
She has been campaigning for Horizon scandal victims since having a conviction overturned in April 2021, in which she had been accused of stealing £70,000 from her post office in West Byfleet, Surrey.
Post Office Inquiry: former lawyer who advised firm challenged over role in ‘derisory’ payouts
Andrew Parsons, partner at Womble Bond Dickinson, was grilled by a lawyer for some of the victims of the Post Office scandal, over advice given to the firm on how it should behave in the mediation scheme.
Post Office Inquiry: former postal affairs minister challenged over failure to listen to victims
18 jul 2024
Former postal affairs minister Pat McFadden has told the Horizon IT inquiry “of course I wish I had done more” to ask the Post Office if the faulty system was “as robust as they suggested”.
The Labour MP and current Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster urged the probe not to recommend making ministers “shadow chief executives” to prevent the bosses of state-owned companies going “rogue” following the scandal.
Mr McFadden instead said it was worth considering the implementation of an independent body “that can be called in to launch an inquiry or take action when the level of allegations reaches such a point that it looks like that is the right thing to do”.
He said ministers “do not intervene in court judgments and cannot overturn court verdicts” after telling the probe the company’s actions resulted in “innocent people being convicted”.
Mr McFadden, who was postal affairs minister between 2007 and 2009, said he does not believe he spoke to then business secretary John Hutton about allegations made by subpostmasters about the integrity of the faulty system.
He told the inquiry that the “ultimate responsibility” for a state-owned company such as the Post Office lies “with the Government”, but said he does not recall officials telling him that “they thought a miscarriage of justice was under way”.
The Labour MP for Wolverhampton South East said he was first made aware that the Post Office was prosecuting subpostmasters for alleged shortfalls at their branches in February 2009.
9 Lord Arbuthnot says Paula Vennells was ‘defensive, legalistic and determined’ to keep info from MPs
‘It Will End In Prison Sentences’ For People Involved In Post Office Scandal, Says Lord Arbuthnot
13 mrt 2024 #postoffice #horizon #postofficescandal
A law aimed at quashing the wrongful convictions of subpostmasters caught up in the Horizon IT scandal is being introduced by the Government on Wednesday.
The proposed Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill “marks an important step forward in finally clearing” the names of hundreds of wronged branch managers who have had their lives “callously torn apart”, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said.
The legislation will exonerate those convicted in England and Wales on the basis of the faulty Horizon accounting software in what has been branded the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history.
TalkTV’s Jeremy Kyle and Nicola Thorp discuss the story with Tory peer and Post Office scandal campaigner Lord James Arbuthnot.
Paula Vennells was ‘lying’ about Post Office scandal, claims forensic accountant
23 jan 2024
It might have taken a drama to galvanise the response to a crisis – but the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal is gradually bringing more details to light, as hundreds of victims seek justice for their ruined lives.
The inquiry will be hoping to uncover more details when it examines a series of covert recordings. This programme has obtained a summary of some of the tapes – a meeting in 2013 between Post Office executives and the independent forensic accountants brought in to investigate.
Educational: This video is essential viewing
Educational: This video is essential viewing
10 Did She Ever Really Care?
Alice Perkins, former Chair of the Post Office, testifies at the Horizon Inquiry.
At first, her tone is cool, dismissive — especially toward tough questions from KCs.
But when Sir Wyn Williams speaks, her voice softens.
Polite. Respectful. Almost warm.
So… was it about truth?
Or about knowing who is speaking?
Gaf ze ooit echt om mensen?
Alice Perkins, voormalig voorzitter van de Post Office, getuigt bij het Horizon-onderzoek.
Aanvankelijk is haar toon kil en defensief — vooral tegenover scherpe vragen van KCs.
Maar zodra Sir Wyn Williams begint te spreken, verandert haar toon.
Beleefd. Respectvol. Bijna warm.
Ging het hier werkelijk om de waarheid?
Of alleen om wie de vragen stelt?
Did Alice Perkins Ever Really Care? Her Attitude Shifts at Post Office Inquiry
6 jun 2024 The papers say
Did she ever care?. Alice Perkins shifts her attitude at the Post Office horizon Inquiry
Alice Perkins, former Chair of the Post Office, gives evidence at the Horizon Inquiry — and viewers are picking up on a striking shift in her tone.
Dismissive and defensive when questioned by certain KCs… but when Sir Wyn Williams begins asking questions, suddenly the tone is warm, polite, even respectful.
And so,
the naked truth reveals itself —
not through what’s said,
but how it’s said.
Alice Perkins picked apart and dissected by Edward Henry, Post Office Inquiry KC.
11 Fair Justice
Vexatious Complaints and how the UK Post Office Screwed Up
18 okt 2024
00:00 – Start
05:53 – A Proper Complaints Process
06:25 – Fair Process
09:50 – Separation of Roles
14:44 – The Post Office Scandal Connection
This video is one requested by Lynne (thanks Lynne) which is where I explain what vexatious complaints are, what impact they have on people (both those who receive vexatious complaints but also those who are accused of making them), how vexatious complaints can be avoided and how this all connects to the Post Office Scandal. I also spruik my next video on the Post Office scandal with a little teaser.
It’s not new, not something we haven’t seen before — it’s a familiar pattern of institutional failure, where power is abused, truth is buried, and innocent people are sacrificed to protect reputations.
Slightly Modernized, Noble Tone “I know of no better life purpose than to dedicate oneself to the great and the impossible—even at the cost of failure.” Poetic but Clear “There is no nobler purpose than to give one’s life striving for the great and the impossible.” Literal but Refined “I know of no greater purpose than to risk everything—even one’s life—for the pursuit of the great and the impossible.”
Toxic Water Prank
http://www.hahaha.com Water fountain is toxic, this is why they install a sign instead of just stopping the fountain. A presentation of the Just For Laughs Gags. The funny hidden camera pranks show for the whole family. Juste pour rire les gags, l’émission de caméra caché la plus comique de la télé!