Fujitsu is set to receive a further £180m in taxpayers’ cash to extend its contract to run the controversial Post Office Horizon IT system for a further five years. As revealed by Computer Weekly yesterday (30 May), the project to replace Horizon has hit major problems, and the Post Office has requested £1bn of extra…
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The Metropolitan Police has confirmed it is setting up a national investigation into the Post Office scandal, although it could take at least two years before any individuals will be charged. The force first started looking into the actions of Post Office and Fujitsu staff in January 2020, following the 2019 High Court case that…
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Former Royal Mail CEO Moya Greene accused Paula Vennells of knowing what was going on at the Post Office while its practices were destroying the lives of hundreds of subpostmasters. During the latest Post Office scandal public inquiry hearing, text exchanges between former Post Office CEO Vennells and Greene were revealed. Following the broadcast in…
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A third police investigation into potential crimes committed by individuals in the Post Office scandal could be launched as the Metropolitan Police Service is “looking at” a potential probe. In January, subpostmaster campaigner Alan Bates said if the police don’t investigate, he and fellow campaigners will raise the funds needed to pursue private prosecutions. When…
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IBM came within a whisker of taking over from Fujitsu as the Post Office’s core system provider, until complexity forced an “anxious” Post Office into a u-turn, the public inquiry has heard. During the latest Post Office Horizon scandal inquiry hearing, it emerged that although IBM had started work on the £100m project to replace…
A former Post Office IT boss had the opportunity to stop it misleading the public over software errors but went along with false public statements that were in conflict with her professional opinion. During the latest Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry hearing, former Post Office chief information officer (CIO) Lesley Sewell revealed she also…
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The Post Office’s most senior IT executive was given the task of researching whether Computer Weekly could carry out a review of an investigation into the controversial Horizon system. At the time in 2012, the Post Office and its retail and accounting system were coming under scrutiny following Computer Weekly’s 2009 expose of problems affecting…
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A Fujitsu IT expert’s admission that bugs existed in the Post Office Horizon system in 2013 was a “bombshell moment”, according to a barrister who was acting for the Post Office at the time. Simon Clarke, a barrister who advised the Post Office on criminal prosecutions, also told the Post Office scandal public inquiry that…
Post Office lawyers misled a barrister acting for them in subpostmaster prosecution cases, the Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry has heard. Simon Clarke, previously a barrister at Cartwright King, said he believes he was misled by the Post Office’s lawyers during his work with the organisation. Discussing the case of Seema Misra, who was…
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The topic of artificial intelligence (AI) is dominant both in and outside of the tech sector at the moment, and a huge part of the Knowledge24 agenda focused on generative AI (GenAI), with many of the platform and product announcements made during the event featuring the technology, including the further embedding of GenAI into the…
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