#horizonit — Public Fediverse posts
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In a further twist of the knife, its now been revealed that the #PostOffice wrote to the Govt (after the #HorizonIT TV drama stoked outrage) to say they would oppose appeals by around half the #subpostmasters convicted (erroneously) fo 'theft'.
If you wanted an indication of how deeply the PO is in detail about their culpability in the affair this would be it!
It just makes me even more sure that the PO executives concerned need to be held fully to account and punished as the innocents were!
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If you've only (relatively) recently become fully aware of the #HorizonIT scandal, #ComputerWeekly have done (for years) some great investigative work to set out the problems & the injustice, fraud & criminal activity perpetrated on the #postmasters.
Here is their guide to the scandal & a great (click-through) list of the ground-breaking journalism on the subject.
[Students, if you're thinking of a dissertation on this, this is a great resource for you]
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In every story of injustice perpetrated by powerful organisations, there comes a moment when the whistleblowers are transformed from pesky annoyances who must be crushed to national heroes who must be lauded & recognised;
sometimes that happens in years, sometimes in decades & in some case only posthumously.
The #horizonIT scandal is crossing that rubicon right now with #AlanBates its hero, but there are so many other scandals that have not reached this point.
Its a sad indictment of the UK
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Over six years after the #GrenfellTowerfire the remediation of faulty & dangerous #building materials remains desperately slow, with building contractors dragging their feet, and Govt. slow to act.
However, when compared with the #HorizonIT & #infectedblood scandals, it reinforces the picture of UK #political #inequality;
when normal people are effected the socio-legal systems of sanction & restitution are slow to move & usually incomplete!
Powerlessness is fatal!
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@davidallengreen has started a series of posts on the legalities of the #postoffice #HorizonIT scandal; the first includes an interesting observation.
In 1982 Sect.69 of PACE set out that: 'it was for the prosecution to show that the computer was operating correctly & not for the defendant to show that computer was not operating correctly'!
But, section 69 was repealed in 1999... but think how the PO case against #postmasters might have gone if hadn't been repealed?