Post Office scandal!! Destroyed lives! *title edited by MNHQ*

[Magnificentmug12]

Genuinely can’t believe and completely shocked by the news today of Royal Mail! Just watched the panorama episode and a mother, who had children, and was also pregnant at the time got handcuffed and took to prison, whilst the Royal Mail just watched, knowing....knowing she was innocent!! That takes a monster!

Do you think money and government power should not be enough to stop those who done this, to be sentenced and sent to prison?!

I will never spend another penny on the Royal Mail- I can not believe what they have done! So horrific! People have even taken their own lives because they couldn’t cope with it!

I’m so shocked!!

I am of the opinion that large companies will protect their bigwigs at all costs.

Whether it be protecting those who ‘waste’ millions on useless computer systems, instigate procedures that cannot work at grass roots level which costs millions but are then quietly allowed to slide away, and those who condone terrible practices because to do anything about it would cast a shadow over their supposedly gleaming tenure and they don’t want to jeopardise their handshake.

People do need to be made accountable. It is unfair that the company umbrella shields them without question.

There are people here. Lives ruined. Reputations tarnished (in another industry but this happened to me). It doesn’t leave you.

It matters that the people responsible face the music.

They were happy enough for the little people to get drowned out by the band.

My village postmistress got caught up in this. Absolutely devastating for them, nobody in the village believed it. Clearly nonsense. They lost their holiday home, closed the post office (so we no longer have one) but remained in the village for several years longer, before moving - but not to far and still visit occasionally. Her name was cleared today. Absofuckinglutely disgusting behaviour by the Post Office.

Something like corporate manslaughter should apply. Compensation isn't enough.

@TheQueef

Something like corporate manslaughter should apply. Compensation isn't enough.

I’ve been pondering this too. Not a criminal lawyer but surely this is a case of perverting the course of justice .. which has a possibility of a life sentence.

Shocking if they get to walk away after knowingly condemning innocent hard working people to ruined lives and jail. Outrageous.

@Toddlerteaplease

Unfortunately you will find it difficult not to spend another penny on Royal Mail. Unless you never post a letter with a stamp on it ever again.

To be fair I’ve not posted a letter using a stamp for about a decade

For me, anyone knowingly covering this up has perverted the course of justice.

I find it hard to fathom why anyone should be protected when people’s lives have been affected to this extent.

I hate injustice and false allegations with an absolute passion. I honestly feel that anyone who is complicit by ignoring/covering up such allegations deserves to be held accountable.

Not guilty isn’t enough of a ‘sorry’. Sorry isn’t even enough. Compensation will never be enough for some. (If not all)

I can’t speak for those affected but I would want justice served on those complicit.

Only then would I get some sort of peace.

Isn't today just the tip of the iceberg too. Something like 700 subpostmasters were convicted. I feel they should all be pardoned, which is something the government has the power to do. It's rarely used nowadays but these cases justify it.

The management at the Post Office should be prosecuted for perjury and perverting the course of justice. But I doubt that will ever happen. One rule for the rich and another for the rest of us.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

The total lack of common sense bothers me. Why didn't anybody in the PO, the police, the Crown Prosecution Service and the judiciary at any point say 'Hang on a minute ...'? They were being asked over and over again to arrest and prosecute people with no criminal records. Were there no reports highlighting that the level of supposed fraud had rocketed after the new accounting system came in?

I remember reading about this in Private Eye at least a decade ago. How on earth has it been allowed to drag on as long as this?

Post Office are a prosecutor in their own right, like the RSPCA. it’s something that needs looking into.

Moral cowards that what the Post Office managers are. Morally corrupt. They should receive sentences. This poor postmasters. I too wept at the pregnant lady prosecuted and jailed. Such a miscarriage of justice.

I think the CEO or CEOs and Chairmen/women at the time and whoever appointed them should face criminal charges. Given it was over a ten year period, I think this includes Adam Crozier.

And agree with the suggestion that the Post Office should not be able to prosecute in future.

I agree.

Merely resigning from their current lucrative positions is not enough.

Nick Wallis, the journalist who did the Panorama and Radio 4 programmes, is doing a crowdfunder to carry on the exposure at www.postofficetrial.com/

Absolutely appalling situation, incredibly sad and very frightening!

The CEO needs to be stripped of her CBE, and made to pay back every penny she received in bonuses, which was millions of pounds. Then she should be given a prison sentence, as should every other person defending this corrupt organisation.

The victims of this crime need compensation that reflects the utter destruction caused to their lives, through no fault of their own.

Literally can't believe this has happened 😡