• Syldon@feddit.uk
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    10 months ago

    Individuals covered it up. They should serve a lot of time for what they did to a lot of people’s lives. Many innocent people were accused convicted and livelihoods destroyed. Labour really need to look at this once in power. It is a massive disgrace.

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      10 months ago

      Labour was in power for 11 of the 14 years the prosecutions were happening. They ceased in 2013 because one of the Post Office’s lawyers advised that their Fujitsu witness had been committing perjury and couldn’t be used again. Instead of righting the wrongs they just quietly stopped prosecuting.

      There’s an ongoing inquiry, which started in 2021. It’s already given an interim report on compensation.