Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful convictions

Re:Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful c... by Accacin on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:23AM (#30331148)

The Private Eye constantly bought this up, even when I didn't see it talked about in other news publications.

I can't remember the exact specifics, but Fujitsu are absolutely to blame in this. They knew about software bugs that caused these issues since 1999.

Private Eye had a great report on this whole saga: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/justice-lost-i... (you can download the report as a PDF on that site).

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Re:Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful c... by daddylonglegs on Monday February 14, 2022 @08:47AM (#30331917)

As I recall, Computer Weekly and Private Eye have been reporting this for over a decade.

This is the second major scandal in recent decades where Computer Weekly, a trade rag, have doggedly held truth to power. The other case I'm thinking of is the Mull of Kintyre crash and the terrible state of the firmware in the helicopters.

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Re:Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful c... by Accacin on Monday February 14, 2022 @04:45PM (#30338826)

Oh, I don't think I've ever read Computer Weekly. Reading through their whole timeline now :)

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Re:Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful c... by joefife on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:41AM (#30331304)

They also have a good podcast on this.

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/49

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Re:Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful c... by jayelbe on Monday February 14, 2022 @11:09AM (#30333693)

This is really good, thank you!

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Re:Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful c... by Accacin on Monday February 14, 2022 @04:42PM (#30338780)

Thanks! I'd forgotten about that one.

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Re:Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful c... by lbriner on Monday February 14, 2022 @10:05AM (#30332822)

I can imagine a Politician saying that the private business of a "private" company is nothing to do with them but what have Politicians done when their consituents were jailed for fraud? Did they assume it was true because they didn't know how many other people with no previous convictions were also jailed?

I guess it is hard since it happened over such a long time, it is easy to assume that the levels look legit, a few 10s of people per year or whatever. Sounds really scary though.

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