For almost the complete duration of her tenure as Post Office Chief Executive, Paula Vennells and the Post Office board kept information about possible (many now either likely or certain) miscarriages of justice from MPs, campaigners and the courts. In 2015 she told...
... Parliament that the Post Offict had done an investigation and such miscarriages of justice had been surfaced. Also in 2015 the Post Office told Panorama remote access to its Horizon computer system was impossible, a direct untruth. The Post Office, through their...
... Director of Communications Mark Davies (former Spad to Jack Straw) put pressure on media outlets to drop the story. He was good at his job and very successful. Some editors didn't want to run the story, prolonging the agony for victims. Alice Perkins (wife of Jack Straw)...
... was Post Office chairman whilst the cover up was put in place. Interim General Counsel in 2013 was Chris Aujard, replacing Susan Crichton, who left in mysterious circumstances.
Richard Callard, Susannah Storey and Tom Cooper were the government representatives on the...
Richard Callard, Susannah Storey and Tom Cooper were the government representatives on the...
... Post Office board throughout the cover-up.
None of the above named execs have ever agreed to a media interview about their role in the scandal.
Here's more on the cover-up, which i wrote last year:
postofficetrial.com/2020/07/the-po…
Some or all of these people decided...
None of the above named execs have ever agreed to a media interview about their role in the scandal.
Here's more on the cover-up, which i wrote last year:
postofficetrial.com/2020/07/the-po…
Some or all of these people decided...
... or worked assiduously to enact decisions which kept the truth from MPs, campaigners, the public and the courts.
We need to know what they knew, and when. And we need to know how much the government knew and authorised.
Don't forget when Paula Vennells left the...
We need to know what they knew, and when. And we need to know how much the government knew and authorised.
Don't forget when Paula Vennells left the...
... Post Office in 2019, after presiding over the cover-up (and throwing tens of millions of pounds at lawyers to keep it buried), she was given a CBE, a Cabinet Office post and a cushy number chairing an NHS Trust. The government and society REWARDED her.
The Court of Appeal has ruled the Post Office's prosecution of 39 Subpostmasters was an affront to the public conscience. The Post Office fought that element to the end. The cover up has not yet attracted the attention of the courts...
... nor does the government think anyone should be held accountable. If there is not a proper investigation into the what the Post Office and government did, when a decision was clearly taken to hide information relating to criminal convictions from MPs and campaigners...
... then there is something very wrong with the society we live in.
I spent ninety minutes yesterday listening to a couple tell me about their experiences of being prosecuted, which led to one of them being sent to prison for theft. On nothing but IT evidence. His conviction...
I spent ninety minutes yesterday listening to a couple tell me about their experiences of being prosecuted, which led to one of them being sent to prison for theft. On nothing but IT evidence. His conviction...
... has been quashed but his experience has left them both scarred and impoverished. They've had 20 years of hell, debt and broken careers on the back of a false prosecution. Money won't get that back. Thankfully they are a strong family and have come through. Others...
... weren't so lucky. And the numbers.. christ... if the Post Office really thinks upwards of 585 convictions are unsafe this is evidence of corporate gangsterism on an industrial scale. And yet no on should be held to account...?
Come on...
Come on...
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