The Court of Appeal will hear the case of a former subpostmaster who was convicted for theft after experiencing unexplained losses while using the Post Office’s Capture accounting software. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has referred the conviction of Patricia Owens, who died in 2003, to the appeal court. She pleaded not guilty to…
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Peer James Arbuthnot has warned suppliers to “think twice” before partnering with Fujitsu on government contracts, to avoid being “tarred by the Fujitsu brush”. Fujitsu’s central role in the Post Office scandal entered wider public consciousness in January 2024, following the broadcast of an ITV drama. Despite its self-imposed ban on bidding for government business…
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Another Post Office scandal could be avoided if leaders in public bodies understand the “black box” IT systems that run their organisations and encourage a “speak up” culture, according to a Parliamentary report. In its latest report, Recognising and responding to early warning signs in public sector bodies, the Committee on Standards in Public Life…
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The Post Office has created a new role to bolster its tech leadership team amid an ongoing project to replace the Horizon system supplied by Fujitsu. This comes at a time when the organisation faces tough decisions over the move away from the controversial IT system used in all Post Office branches. Subpostmasters were blamed…
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The statutory public inquiry into the Post Office scandal went relatively unnoticed for almost two years, but in that time, those au fait with the case have been shocked on an almost daily basis. The airing of ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office drama and accompanying documentary in January 2024, eventually put the scandal…
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The Post Office has apologised once again to subpostmasters after it was confirmed that a text message intended to warn branch managers of a problem preventing access to the Horizon IT system was never sent. As reported by Computer Weekly earlier this week, about 3,000 Post Office branch counters were unable do business when they…
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Former Post Office chair Tim Parker said he “regrets” taking advice from the organisation’s legal chief to keep secret a critical report that could have supported the claims of subpostmasters wrongly accused of theft and false accounting. Parker was questioned about the report during the latest hearing at the Post Office scandal public inquiry. Like…
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A former senior Fujitsu engineer claims he was “trapped” into giving misleading evidence by the Post Office during the prosecution of subpostmasters accused of theft and fraud. He told the latest Post Office scandal public inquiry hearing that what happened in cases where subpostmasters were wrongly convicted, based on the evidence he gave as an…
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A former Fujitsu engineer who gave evidence for the Post Office during trials of subpostmasters has made an “extraordinary” claim during questioning at the Post Office scandal public inquiry. Gareth Jenkins told the public inquiry that a reference to “the computer” in his previous witness statements to courts was widely misunderstood to be referring to…
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A former Fujitsu IT expert’s ignorance of the rules that expert witnesses to courts must adhere to meant subpostmasters were wrongly convicted of financial crimes and jailed, the Post Office public inquiry has heard. Gareth Jenkins began acting as an expert IT witness to courts for the Post Office in the early 2000s, when the…
