Post Office Inquiry: Fujitsu boss labels editing of witness statements in prosecutions ‘shameful’
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- čas přidán 18. 01. 2024
- Fujitsu’s European boss has described the editing of witness statements to defend the Horizon IT system that were used in the prosecutions of subpostmasters as “shameful”.
Paul Patterson told the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry that he was “surprised” that details of bugs, errors and defects (BEDs) in the scandal-hit software were not included in witness statements for criminal proceedings against subpostmasters.
He admitted that BEDs had existed in the system for “nearly two decades” and said the “vast majority” had been shared with the Post Office contemporaneously.
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The Post Office EDITED OUT evidence that the Fujitsu accounts programme was faulty when it prosecuted sub-postmasters. What hope is there for the business culture of this country?
It’s totally obvious that this was a huge cover up ,I hope that important lessons are learned from this inquiry.
What business culture?
None!
Time to make a few examples in the various spheres of failure we are obliged to pay for.
The fact that none of these scions of british businesses are head hunted by the usa, the eu etc tells us what we need to know. They usually follow the gilded path into the nhs and other taxpayer funded organisations where their lack of acumen is not considered relevant. Who they went to school and hunt to hounds with is what really matters.
The word he is searching for is criminal.
The fact that people have gone to prison and been accused of fraud, shows the utter stupidity that infests our large organisations, including politics, the police etc. We have people in charge at all levels of society, in different organisations, who literally do not know what they are doing: and that equates to the mess this country is in.......in all matters.
Yes, totally agree. It's perjury. I'm sure we've all been had in some way by the institution.
Yes and the public let it blindly happen
Jailtime for everyone involved!!
Bonuses must be paid back !
Pensions have to be sacked ..
The people want to see justice done…!
I can’t shout it loud enough… BOYCOTT
😮The Fujitsu guy remarked that vital information re. bugs, defects etc. was edited out of key witness statements before evidence concerning the prosecution of sub-postmasters was presented!
If that isn't a blatant attempt to pervert the course of justice, I don't know what is! Fujitsu should be dragged through the courts along with the PO for their criminal actions!
Criminal is a word I would use
What word would you use other than shameful, try Corrupt or illegal, maybe even disgraceful!
Surely a criminal offence perverting the course of justice. Charges need to now be instigated on fugitsu and post office personnel no matter how high their position.
Another word is purgery
'Purgery' is indeed a word (I was surprised to discover), but it is a rather obscure one, referring to the part of a sugarhouse where molasses is drained from the sugar.
I'll give him a word 'Liars'.
I just wonder why the government always seems to favour foreign companies over uk companies when giving out these contracts.
Because anything of value has been to sold overseas..
Money, greed
@@redzed40 yes we seem good at that we do the hard work setting things up and as soon as they become profitable we sell it to foreigners,take the Dartford crossing for instance apparently owned by the French now !!!!
The work was done by Fujitsu UK, a UK company. It is open to speculation whether the quality of the product would have been higher had they used talented and experienced staff from other countries, familiar with rigorous software development methodologies, ACID, and challenges of concurrent distributed system design.
At the time we were part of the EU and we had to use companies as part of a tendering process. We do have more control now and can look after our own interests, it's just that parliament isn't interested in doing so.
no shame at all no regrets also
If management at POL and Fujitsu and their lawyers were tried and convicted under the same criteria applied to sub postmasters they would all be in prison by now Accused, faulty or no evidence and ill will on the part of the prosecutor
Wow, avoiding answering the question.
So who from the post office and who from Fujitsu are going to jail
I’ve had sterner conversations in the pub 🤬
The aim here is to extract as much useful evidence as possible.
He forgot the word "criminal
Another one saying he could not remember or can’t recall.
Culture eats policy every time.
Someone is in the 💩
They really aren’t. Life for them will be mildly uncomfortable for a few weeks then they continue with huge salaries, pensions, or oh no the dreaded severance package which always involves hundreds of thousands and a step down or resignation.
Justice equals joke….. we need to take action.
Err forgot on word criminal😅
They never know what is shame anyway
A big boy did it and ran away.
This man actually seems to be a decent man,why was this let happen
Fool
I do not me it was someone else
Blameshifting, Fujitsu should have alerted the press that something was wrong and issued a press statement to that effect , they didn't and IMO are complicit with the Post Office in the cover-up, both companies are pathetic and not fit for purpose and yet our government continues to award contracts to Fujitsu. The government at the time and subsequent governments until now sat on their hands and themselves are complicit. Even now this gross miscarriage of justice continues to be swept under the carpet. Innocent people were criminalised and some ended their own lives as a consequence, so far not one exec from the Post Office or Fujitsu has been brought to task, lost their jobs or prosecuted, and our government pretends to care but continues to do nothing. Another case of the rich and powerful abusing the "little people" who have nothing. Times are changing, the fight back has begun, and it starts at the ballot box, forget red or blue, choose someone you think you can trust, maybe independent, Reform or something else but NOT either of the big two or that pathetic Ed Davey. Neither Sunak or Starmer are interested in us and neither are a majority of their MPs.
More to FJ thievery than just this often wondered who and what the photos are of or is it purely big brown envelopes very very disingenuous with their HMG contracts and that means me and you dear UK taxpayer
買収前のイギリスの会社の責任です。
富士通は関係ありません。責任もありません。
責任転嫁するイギリス政府と司法に問題があります。
イギリス政府と司法が謝罪するべきですね。
Nice troll comment from a Japanese shill
うそつき 。日本の犯罪企業富士通は弱小国日本に恥をさらした。
Capitalism at its finest!
Another lier
Try this word, "Criminal!"
Bloody pratt