The company behind the computer glitch and supplied the the system to the post office have not paid a penny in compensation.
Also and this is hard to believe but they are still getting contracts off the government
Many people committed suicide because of this, RIP
Fujitsu were far from faultless. But the PO did far worse IMHO.
Even after it was known that the system was faultyâŚstuff happensâŚthe PO maintained it was not faulty.
Errors happen in real life. it is how you deal with them that matters.
Fujitsu made errors, PO told lies.
And a few individuals in Fujitsu deserve praise as whistle-blowers.
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Nothing wrong with reading the Williams Report etc, but another excellent source on the story and in 15min chunks for when you are driving motorways or chilling is from the BBC. It does total hours of listening all in, and it is from one of the first journalists to cover the story, Nick Wallis, from 2011 when he was on local radio.
dont forget starmers part in it putting all these people in jail. oh wait he was just the boss it wasnt him i keep forgetting that bit
Please tell us about it then.
What I would like to know, and as far as I know itâs never been mentioned, is where did all the âstolenâ money go? The branch accounts âshowedâ a shortfall so is the money with Fujitsu or the Post Office or is it in some sticky fingered computer programmers bank account somewhere?
I could be totally wrong but i think it was a computer error and the amount of money was never there
But saying that they made the postmasters pay what they thought was the shortfall
So what happened to the money the postmasters paid back
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Thatâs basically it. End of each day the computer/till said should be say ÂŁ500 in there . Staff cashing p ever might counting it realising it was short most thought maybe I short changed someone or what ever thereâs only ÂŁ480 so they were putting the extra ÂŁ20 in put there pocket to make it right.
Ok might been more than ÂŁ20 short but get the idea. Years later turns out the computers were wrong and there was never a shortfall every night
From Jan last year
âMoney wrongfully taken from victims of the Horizon scandal may have gone into the pay of Post Office executives, MPs have been told.
Nick Read, chief executive of the Post Office, said the company has still ânot got to the bottom ofâ what happened to the cash paid by sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses in a bid to cover the false financial black holes created by the faulty Horizon software.â
I donât know what the Williams report says.