So many lives wrecked by PO
Am I the only one who is deeply puzzled by the lack of court proceedings against Paula Vennells and other senior Post Office and Fujitsu executives?
The long-standing and ever growing dossier of prima facie evidence surely warrants arrests for at least malicious prosecution and perverting the course of justice.
It appears that the inquiry is being used as a shield against this, supported by politicians desperate to avoid further damaging revelations before the election.
Surely no amount of financial compensation will ever be adequate without high level prosecutions?
Steve Chapman, Milton Keynes
I was watching an interview on BBC Breakfast with Jess Kaur, a sub-postmistress who was a victim of the Post Office Horizon scandal. I thought I couldn’t get shocked by revelations anymore, but Jess emotionally revealed on live TV that while she was in hospital suffering with severe trauma and mental health breakdowns – directly caused by her employer – the Post Office sent in their own doctors to find out if she was actually faking her illness. I gasped in horror at the fact that the Post Office bosses can’t even trust a professional, clinical diagnosis given by a highly qualified NHS doctor/ consultant about a patient in their care. How can Post Office bosses stoop so low?
I hope the bosses involved in this scandalous Horizon
affair get a taste of their own medicine. That means jail time.
J Williams, Slough, Berks
Ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells, it seems from tape recordings, was well versed in the failings of the Horizon computer program that was forced onto postmasters, so why isn’t she in custody facing criminal proceedings?
There can be no ignorance in the persecution of hundreds of postmasters and in some cases imprisonment. We don’t need a multi-million pound inquiry, the facts are there!
The inquiry should be wound up and criminal proceedings commenced, with the arrest of all those involved in the cover-up. People’s lives have been ruined.
ST Vaughan, Yardley Wood Birmingham
Now that documents have proved that bosses and lawyers knew of issues within the Horizon system, they themselves should be investigated by the police.
Ronnie Starkey, Norwich
I am appalled that survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster, the sub-postmasters and WASPI women wanting pension compensation, to name but a few, often have to wait years, with some dying, before receiving any justice or compensation.
Mary Steadman, Chelmsford Essex
It seems that for a while it has been official policy to just hope that people die and shut up to save the government money.
I’m thinking in particular of the disgusting treatment of the Christmas Island veterans and the haemophilia contaminated blood scandal.
More recently we’ve had the WASPI women and, let’s face it, the Post Office sub-postmasters would be going the same way if it wasn’t for a TV drama.
I’m sure there are countless other travesties I haven’t mentioned. Come on MPs, get your act in gear!