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  • A secret audio recording obtained by ITV News has revealed Post Office boss Paula Vennells was told directly about problems with the Horizon system and warned not to cover them up.
    In a meeting with independent investigators from Second Sight on July 2, 2013, Ms Vennells was made aware of allegations that sub-postmaster branch accounts could be accessed remotely.
    This is something the Post Office had denied for years.
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  • @jefflong7573
    @jefflong7573 Před 2 měsíci +914

    Lying person. Vennells needs to go to prison.

    • @StimParavane
      @StimParavane Před 2 měsíci

      She's a woman so no chance. Women get special treatment in a feminist society.

    • @leroysimon5692
      @leroysimon5692 Před 2 měsíci +11

      👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾

    • @michaelmcginley7930
      @michaelmcginley7930 Před 2 měsíci +36

      It wont happen believe me.toomany friends on high places

    • @woodenseagull1899
      @woodenseagull1899 Před 2 měsíci +36

      It is a must. That Paula Vennels is prosocuted.... It would be a must with many others as well. Also, this is a dreadful time for the Church of England with its link to the establishment, which Paula Vennels is part of

    • @Surveillance-Ys
      @Surveillance-Ys Před 2 měsíci +32

      Vermin Vennells

  • @stevewiles7132
    @stevewiles7132 Před 2 měsíci +829

    She committed fraud, lied to Parliament, and allowed a crime to proceed, she needs gaol time.

    • @Starbuck251
      @Starbuck251 Před 2 měsíci +34

      She was living of the proceeds of crime

    • @Itskilo
      @Itskilo Před 2 měsíci +29

      gaol time best time

    • @mikewa2
      @mikewa2 Před 2 měsíci +50

      Paula Vennells, 65, may have returned her CBE this week over her role in the Post Office scandal, but there are now calls for the former chief to return the £3million she made in bonuses during her time in the job. And her pension needs to be adjusted to reflect just the basic wage as a minimum

    • @fasthracing
      @fasthracing Před 2 měsíci +9

      @@BigGollywog Or a Labour one even.

    • @StimParavane
      @StimParavane Před 2 měsíci

      She's a woman so no chance in a feminist society.

  • @flipperth1
    @flipperth1 Před 2 měsíci +438

    First thing, she should be stripped of her Post Office pension!! Second thing, criminal trial and prison.

    • @WearertheRESISTENCE
      @WearertheRESISTENCE Před 2 měsíci +14

      👍💯

    • @annepoitrineau5650
      @annepoitrineau5650 Před 2 měsíci +6

      Not stripped: the pension should be halved at least (we do not want the state to have to give her benefits as she'd be under the breadline), and the money should go to the people who have been wronged.

    • @jonnyrocket3659
      @jonnyrocket3659 Před 2 měsíci +15

      @@annepoitrineau5650 even without her PO pension, she won't be on the breadline... strip it 100%

    • @annepoitrineau5650
      @annepoitrineau5650 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@jonnyrocket3659 I understand the sentiment. But I know nothing about her financial situation, and I really would not want her to be getting benefits for being below the bread line :)

    • @Arltratlo
      @Arltratlo Před 2 měsíci +3

      lol, she will get double pay for her good work for the PO!

  • @TheWalrusWasDanny
    @TheWalrusWasDanny Před 2 měsíci +451

    So Paula Vennells needs to be brought to account on why she lied to MPs in 2015...and the enquiry needs to know why she continued to sanction prosecutions against innocent people...as somebody has just said...the wrong people went to jail.

    • @Bernd_Gandamete
      @Bernd_Gandamete Před 2 měsíci +21

      I suppose she thought that if they suddenly stopped the prosecutions they would have to explain why. It would amount to an admission that all the previous prosecutions were false so she just kept the ball rolling.

    • @michaelanthonydevlin6915
      @michaelanthonydevlin6915 Před 2 měsíci +21

      Tramp - straight to prison and her home and all possessions seized. 2:32

    • @fasthracing
      @fasthracing Před 2 měsíci +10

      100%

    • @StimParavane
      @StimParavane Před 2 měsíci

      She's a woman so no chance in a feminist society.

    • @michaelbrian219
      @michaelbrian219 Před 2 měsíci +5

      All of this and she is a part time vicar, that says it all.

  • @caroledell9751
    @caroledell9751 Před 2 měsíci +398

    These despicable people NEED to be in Jail. This whole dreadful Post Office saga is WRONG on so many levels..... makes me sick.....

    • @andydudley1775
      @andydudley1775 Před 2 měsíci +2

      did it with full confidence of the goverment behind her .

    • @geraldandrew3289
      @geraldandrew3289 Před 2 měsíci

      @caroledell9751 The sight of her face makes me sick also.

    • @geraldandrew3289
      @geraldandrew3289 Před 2 měsíci

      @caroledell9751 The sight of her face makes me sick also.

  • @martinfrancis3285
    @martinfrancis3285 Před 2 měsíci +489

    Criminal. She and the post office should be criminally investigated.

    • @TSWHedgehog
      @TSWHedgehog Před 2 měsíci +13

      What is there left to investigate? She needs to go to prison

    • @Starbuck251
      @Starbuck251 Před 2 měsíci +7

      What are the police playing at are they completely corrupt themselves?

    • @StimParavane
      @StimParavane Před 2 měsíci

      She's a woman so no chance in a feminist society.

    • @spencerh2860
      @spencerh2860 Před 2 měsíci

      @@Starbuck251only as corrupt as the long tentacle they are apart of (government)

    • @JoeWilson738
      @JoeWilson738 Před 2 měsíci

      @@Starbuck251this has nothing to do with the police 😂

  • @THEOUTCASTSCREATIVE
    @THEOUTCASTSCREATIVE Před 2 měsíci +240

    Vennells must go to prison!!!!

  • @minzy421
    @minzy421 Před 2 měsíci +197

    Paula should attend court not a public hearing

  • @gsmoto9790
    @gsmoto9790 Před 2 měsíci +238

    When is she going to be arrested?

  • @paulwilliamson3211
    @paulwilliamson3211 Před 2 měsíci +148

    When the investigator refers to “SOME BLOODY WHISTLEBLOWER” shows you where their loyalty was.

    • @sallynolan5928
      @sallynolan5928 Před 2 měsíci +21

      Exactly what I was thinking.

    • @mcihs2
      @mcihs2 Před 2 měsíci +13

      The majority of people think like this as “the truth” is unpalatable to most, with comforting lies being preferred….

    • @testnameone806
      @testnameone806 Před 2 měsíci +11

      or they understood their audience and wanted to appear on their side. After all they were telling the Post Office to come clean and do the right thing, instead the post office sacked them.

    • @Setinmywaysalways
      @Setinmywaysalways Před 2 měsíci +6

      Complicit in the cover up

    • @acampbell8614
      @acampbell8614 Před 2 měsíci +9

      @@testnameone806In which case they themselves should have been the "bloody whistleblowers" and brought these recordings to the attention of the Court.

  • @andypandy9013
    @andypandy9013 Před 2 měsíci +133

    Hey Paula! Isn't it past YOUR jail time! 😠

  • @nimmichagger165
    @nimmichagger165 Před 2 měsíci +99

    She deserves serious prison time. What an evil woman.

  • @migry
    @migry Před 2 měsíci +113

    “Truely sorry”. What a joke of a statement. Why no Post Office or Fujitsu executives in prison? People have died. I call that MURDER 🤬

    • @twattyfuckface
      @twattyfuckface Před 2 měsíci

      Just like the bankers who caused the financial crash...all retired long ago and living in luxury....

  • @williekp1
    @williekp1 Před 2 měsíci +118

    Arrest her. Put her in jail on remand. Take her jail time into account after her prosecution. She is despicable. She is also good friends with the Archbishop of Canterbury. What does that tell you?

    • @annepoitrineau5650
      @annepoitrineau5650 Před 2 měsíci +6

      She WAS good friend until the Archbishop learnt the truth.

    • @pantani9886
      @pantani9886 Před 2 měsíci +4

      She is in the "Club", so will get away with it!

    • @stephanguitar9778
      @stephanguitar9778 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Religious piousness and hypocrisy go hand in hand.

    • @stevehaynes2857
      @stevehaynes2857 Před 2 měsíci

      The C of E currently have 10 billion pounds in investments, but still ask parishioners for a collection for “the church roof”. That tells you everything about the hypocrisy of the church.

  • @camf7522
    @camf7522 Před 2 měsíci +212

    Time for the people in the know to be charged, convicted and jailed/gaoled…and quickly.

    • @StimParavane
      @StimParavane Před 2 měsíci

      She's a woman so no chance. Women get special treatment in a feminist society.

    • @Ken-ps9ux
      @Ken-ps9ux Před 2 měsíci

      For many things . Infected blood scandal Grenfell Hillsborough Covid Illegal War Care Pathways to name but a few more

    • @leroysimon5692
      @leroysimon5692 Před 2 měsíci +2

      👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾

  • @eddieharris6004
    @eddieharris6004 Před 2 měsíci +48

    "Some bloody whistleblower".....meaning an individual who cannot sleep at night knowing the hell an innocent postmaster might be going through.

  • @lewis123417
    @lewis123417 Před 2 měsíci +112

    By the end of all this i bet the only people who would have served a prison sentence are the wrongfully imprisoned sub postmasters

  • @noramartin96
    @noramartin96 Před 2 měsíci +131

    How can she now be reported to be having a career in the NHS if that is true we need more than God to help us!

    • @willie2761
      @willie2761 Před 2 měsíci +17

      One of the NHS star studded management team

    • @Jon-xw9om
      @Jon-xw9om Před 2 měsíci +12

      They've seen the light. she's gone.

    • @thomasshepard6030
      @thomasshepard6030 Před 2 měsíci +27

      She is also an ordained priest what a bloody joke she should be serving a minimum 10 years

    • @fasthracing
      @fasthracing Před 2 měsíci +7

      Well as she was a Church of England minister maybe she herself could contact god?

    • @Jon-xw9om
      @Jon-xw9om Před 2 měsíci +7

      @@fasthracing I think the Devil might have gotten there first. She might even try that as a defence....?😄

  • @user-hf7mk4pp7n
    @user-hf7mk4pp7n Před 2 měsíci +79

    If Vennells doesn't go to prison, it means money can get you off the hook.

    • @JohnSmith-vy4lh
      @JohnSmith-vy4lh Před 2 měsíci +14

      It's all nonsense.
      The Horizon system was tried by the DWP from 1996 to 1999 and it failed at the cost to the tax payer of £700,000,000.
      So when queries arose about the system at the post office, it should of sent alarm bells ringing right at the beginning, but they willfully ignored the warnings and put the blame on the sub-post masters.
      I think there should be an enquiry into Horizon systems and Fujitsu, to see just how they got these contracts in the first place. Have they got friends in high places?

    • @jjefferyworboys8138
      @jjefferyworboys8138 Před 2 měsíci +3

      It always has and money also buys you the best legal representation.

    • @rvarsigfusson6163
      @rvarsigfusson6163 Před 2 měsíci

      @@jjefferyworboys8138 These white collars criminals are getting the state to pay for the legal cost..... Because they did it at the job and therefore!!

    • @rvarsigfusson6163
      @rvarsigfusson6163 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@JohnSmith-vy4lh Like what you said here..... But I have been seeing this system failures come to live in many cases and i do really wonder why do some companies get contracts on official delivery time and a time again ..... when they fail big time and are delayed big time again and again....

  • @julierogers1155
    @julierogers1155 Před 2 měsíci +230

    GEEZUS, the extreme corruptness of these Post Office executives, and at Fujitsu, is astounding.
    WHAT did Paula Vennells and the other Post Office executives have to gain by doing this to innocent people?!
    I am so relieved this is RECORDED, and it will be useful for these victims of the Post Office "scandal", better word is CRIMES, to use in court.

    • @leroysimon5692
      @leroysimon5692 Před 2 měsíci +4

      👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾

    • @kdlofty
      @kdlofty Před 2 měsíci +9

      Perjury, defamation of character, fraud.

    • @Bayaz420
      @Bayaz420 Před 2 měsíci +3

      I AGREE with you

    • @bookergrimm
      @bookergrimm Před 2 měsíci

      They added the edited balances to their profits. It was simple theft. The oldest reason in the book. They were making record profits and used a rigged system to make more. Every one of them belongs in jail.

    • @paulrichards6894
      @paulrichards6894 Před 2 měsíci +4

      will she ever get brought to justice...somehow i doubt it

  • @colinpryor4290
    @colinpryor4290 Před 2 měsíci +92

    1:13 - The face of true evil in the UK today. Think about how many people lost their life savings, their businesses, their liberty, their homes, their marriages, their self-respect, their futures and lost their lives while she and her Brethren continued to prosecute them knowing they were innocent? Crimes by people like this are committed in front of the world and they smile and tell you everything is fine, while daring the world to find them guilty. Sadly, I think that so many of the Establishment with their 'connections' are involved in this whole sorry tale and that there will never be a single day spent in jail for any of them. ... And one day in the future, they will wonder "What happened to this great country?" as they witness everything falling apart.

  • @calebfielding6352
    @calebfielding6352 Před 2 měsíci +32

    she lied specifically to put people in prison. She should get life.

  • @brubeker12
    @brubeker12 Před 2 měsíci +191

    Call in the Police and do it now . £100 million of public monet spent knowing all along the Post Office was guilty not the people running the post offices many who were in gaol many of have died, email your MP call in the cops NOW public money has been deliberately mispent to facilitate a cover up

    • @davidcolin6519
      @davidcolin6519 Před 2 měsíci

      There is already a police investigation under way.
      However, part of the problem is that the scope of the investigation is so enormous that it is almost certainly going to take YEARS to reach its conclusion. Let's face it, we don't want any of these w*nkrags getting away with it, but a rushed court case is very likely to result in exactly that.
      OTOH, there certainly does seem to be a very real case for holding Vennells personally responsible for the legal bills, as she must have given personal assurances to multiple ministers that she wasn't lying.
      She might have had personal friends within the government, but that makes it even worse when she lied to them. And with Labour just about to step into government, the buck passing is going to stop at that b*tch's seat. Nor do I think that the fallout will end there.

    • @clowncarqingdao
      @clowncarqingdao Před 2 měsíci +7

      And some minister somewhere had to sign off on that amount of money being spent.

    • @theenigmaticgamer
      @theenigmaticgamer Před 2 měsíci +10

      Ed Davey? Now nowhere to be seen since this scandal broke. He couldn’t be bothered looking into it when first approached by Mr Bates. Far too busy to listen to the little people😡

    • @sarangistudent8614
      @sarangistudent8614 Před 2 měsíci +6

      @@theenigmaticgameryep always blaming others whilst ignoring the fact that TORIES have been in charge for the past 14 years. The buck should stop with them, but they just BLAME AND BLAME whilst letting everything go to 5hit, literally. Even now, they’re doing absolutely nothing about this. It’s nothing to do with anyone but the Tories. The post masters have died without being paid, and the Tories still haven’t sorted this out. Stop blaming anyone but them.

    • @danielbate13
      @danielbate13 Před 2 měsíci

      The higher up in the police will be offered money to not do a thing, and they will take that FILTHY lucre trust me, does anybody with any common sense at all actually believe they and their masters in the lying governments really believe they have the interests of the general public at heart?

  • @williamgoss4691
    @williamgoss4691 Před 2 měsíci +114

    This scale of the corruption, illegality and lies to Parliament by the Post Office gets more sickening and devastating for all the accused and jailed Post Masters & Mistresses every week. It is truly one of the most shaming miscarriages of justice by a British company, by a previously respected institution, for over a 100years. Everyone and anyone who was even remotely connected to this injustice should be properly investigated by the Police and jailed if proven culpable.

  • @MC-emmcee
    @MC-emmcee Před 2 měsíci +52

    This is bad. Very bad. Too many lives were permanently damaged by this scandal and I feel there will be no justice until the main players, both within the post office and fujitsu, are stripped of all financial gains and that they see jail time.

  • @damianleah6744
    @damianleah6744 Před 2 měsíci +73

    The distain those at the top had for these innocent post masters is truly horrific and all those responsible need to be prosecuted and jailed

    • @monipenny408
      @monipenny408 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Disdain for life in general, just look at how the entire UK criminal govt funded and backed the gazan ge no side.

    • @derekmclean5603
      @derekmclean5603 Před 2 měsíci

      Paula Vennells is a Cof E vicar or something like that. Not much can make what she has done any worse but that surely comes close. Added hypocrisy mingled with religious dogma.

  • @Jannie-
    @Jannie- Před 2 měsíci +45

    Innocent people took their lives over this, others were left with mental health issues and many lost everything they owned ! - That woman is despicable and should be held accountable 😡.

    • @stephanguitar9778
      @stephanguitar9778 Před 2 měsíci

      And for those still alive, she stole decades of their lives to protect her own image and arrogance.

  • @kadowie
    @kadowie Před 2 měsíci +56

    Where did the financial discrepancies go? What was the incentive to cover this up? It's corruption. Investigate their finances and send Vennells to prison; she sent a pregnant woman to prison. She had no sympathy, and is deserving of none.

    • @jimslade9320
      @jimslade9320 Před 2 měsíci +4

      they had a seperate account that any imbalance would be shifted to and after a period of times (3 years I think?) it was written off as an accounting error and any monies held in that account ie Subpostmasters paying out of pocket in an attempt to make up a shortfall shown on the computer was re-absorbed into the main post office account...in other words any mony that could not be correctly allocated was effectively stolen by the post office after that waiting period was over..

    • @seanmaguire380
      @seanmaguire380 Před 2 měsíci

      Surely the real fraud is perpetrated by Fujitsu and senior members of PO who covered it up. Why are the Police not investigating? We hear about old murder cases and cold cases being re opened with a lot less evidence than we have here...

    • @maryarigho5868
      @maryarigho5868 Před 22 dny

      Apparently went into bonuses for PO execs. Horrific.

  • @sandygZ0035
    @sandygZ0035 Před 2 měsíci +35

    Her, and all those who knew, need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. They all need time behind bars, like the people they put behind bars. They also need to lose their livelihoods and become 'ordinary' people and see how it feels to struggle. Just like they made all those postmasters struggle

  • @Garwfechan-ry5lk
    @Garwfechan-ry5lk Před 2 měsíci +41

    The wrong people went to Jail

  • @splintercast8092
    @splintercast8092 Před 2 měsíci +23

    If she doesn't go to prison then justice does not exist in this country.

    • @johnjc4645
      @johnjc4645 Před 2 měsíci

      You are just waking up then so called justice is only for people who can buy it or have influential contacts

  • @user-pp7gt6xw7p
    @user-pp7gt6xw7p Před 2 měsíci +75

    Why aren’t the police going into Fujitsu and arresting staff involved?

    • @terencejay8845
      @terencejay8845 Před 2 měsíci +15

      It looks like some people, somewhere were stuffing their pockets. What seemed like it may be a computer glitch now appears to be far more deliberate.

    • @richard21995
      @richard21995 Před 2 měsíci +8

      Surely there is a trail left of where the missing money was transferred too ?

    • @jimslade9320
      @jimslade9320 Před 2 měsíci +10

      its not so much that they were stealing money... they were fiddling with a defective system in an attempt to fix it in real time...that is the system was incorrectly showing money that did not exist to be in the account...no one was pocketing it as it was not there, what they did do was it seems try and hide that this was happening..by moving the issue onto one of user error rather than system error.

    • @glasgirlinoz
      @glasgirlinoz Před 2 měsíci +9

      Where is all the real money that the sub-postmasters were made to pay to the PO over a decade?

    • @jrobbio
      @jrobbio Před 2 měsíci +2

      ​@@glasgirlinozThe dramatisation surmised that it was shown as Post Office profits.

  • @Musicmyvideo
    @Musicmyvideo Před 2 měsíci +26

    So when is Vennells getting arrested?

  • @robhenley8408
    @robhenley8408 Před 2 měsíci +23

    Time for Rishi to make good on his first No.10 statement......accountability, integrity , and professionalism at all levels.
    There should be no second Frank Hester chances for Paula Venells and other PO executives. " I'm sorry " doesn't cut it.

    • @davidhardaker192
      @davidhardaker192 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Rishi is too busy handing out honours to his mates.

    • @vmax4steve524
      @vmax4steve524 Před 2 měsíci

      @@davidhardaker192 And government contracts to his family.

  • @iainmore3961
    @iainmore3961 Před 2 měsíci +41

    Why arent the perjurers in Prison? Ah corrupt Britain for us I guess.

  • @mrentertainer47
    @mrentertainer47 Před 2 měsíci +21

    During those released tapes, not once was it mentioned about the harm being done to the victims. Downright disgusting! For every year that the Post Office has lied there should be the same in sentencing to prison, all those that knew about the issue and kept quiet while innocent people had their lives destroyed!

    • @colinmartin2921
      @colinmartin2921 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Because they don't care, they have never cared about the little people.

  • @eelesey1
    @eelesey1 Před 2 měsíci +28

    Meanwhile Fujitsu are being awarded the digital id tender...

  • @dannywood3015
    @dannywood3015 Před 2 měsíci +23

    Put her in prison

  • @honved1
    @honved1 Před 2 měsíci +29

    So second sight warned her not to deny that Fujitsu had access so she sacked them and ignored their warning. What did she expect the outcome to be?

  • @rward16384
    @rward16384 Před 2 měsíci +16

    Paula deserves jail time as a leader of the organisation and made fully aware of the situation but still clearly misleading everyone, any bonuses paid to her and the team should be clawed back or asserts seized as it would with any criminal gains.

  • @robmckay5421
    @robmckay5421 Před 2 měsíci +5

    Last night (Easter Sunday) we in Aotearoa New Zealand saw the drama Mr Bates VS Post Office on TV 1. The content of that drama was discussed the following day on talk back radio. We are appalled at the corruption and cover-ups done by the UK Post Office. The Horizon computer system was evidently flawed. CEO of the PO, Paula Vennells, should have told the truth by laying the blame on Horizon and not upon innocent hardworking Post Masters and Post Mistresses. Mr Bates VS Post Office is a David & Goliath story where politicians, business leaders and big corporates shaft the little people, and to our amazement the little people fought back with plain truth.

  • @Kerryatter
    @Kerryatter Před 2 měsíci +23

    Surely, this is a case of perjury, which can be prosecuted in a court of law. Those who knew and still took those poor sub-postmasters to court, must face jail time of their own!
    I have other questions too though: What were the Fujitsu staff doing whilst they were in the live accounting systems? Were they stealing money? Why didn’t anyone at Fujitsu do anything to stop this from happening? It was abundantly clear that there were major issues. Where did all the money that the sub-postmasters have to pay out of their own pockets go? Why did it take SO long to sort out? Why is Paula Vennells not in prison?

    • @dh2032
      @dh2032 Před 2 měsíci

      I as much as I can work out the post money the is in simple form, all just payed the post offices bank account with bigger bank, the that where it is to this day, a surplice cash not should not be in tha count r accounts of heard post office, I wonder big bosses helped them self's to excess cash as bonus, as on one would not miss cash that should not be there, can not be explained as to how it got there in the first place, well until now anyway that is?

    • @John64125
      @John64125 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Did she lie under oath? I don’t know the detail but surely if she denied knowing about the software faults under oath she’s in trouble?

    • @huginnmuninn2155
      @huginnmuninn2155 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@John64125 it would depend on wheter or not she was sworn in during her testimony in front of the parliamentary committee (if she was that would be pretty slam dunk) and wheter or not she signed any sworn legal documents (sadly, I think that would only hurt some lower ranking paper pushers, who would have to attest to some things regarding the data system fir the prosecutions).
      Sadly I think the best possible outcome is that by manifestly misleading her employers she should have violated civil service code, and then they could hopefully yank her pension.

    • @John64125
      @John64125 Před 2 měsíci

      @@huginnmuninn2155 good input, thanks. I suspect like so many of these very senior people she will have been skilled at avoiding illegal acts. So much as we all hope for justice we might have to accept lesser punishment.

  • @damianleah6744
    @damianleah6744 Před 2 měsíci +41

    The clergy must be so proud

    • @jennymoss2122
      @jennymoss2122 Před 2 měsíci +10

      Perhaps she can become a prison chaplain

    • @josephinedewar4469
      @josephinedewar4469 Před 25 dny

      No, they are not proud - they are saddened that this bad apple is tainting the good work done by many good Christian clergy. Many instrumental in setting up Food Banks, Centres for the Homeless and fight against poverty and injustice. Don't generalise!
      In every profession there are good and bad apples - Dr.Shipman didn't make every doctor a murderer!! Be fair, not blinkered!

  • @brassneck6636
    @brassneck6636 Před 2 měsíci +29

    all those at the top within the post office need to be doing jail time for this !! plus at least one year for everyone wrongfully accused and jailed!!

    • @Freakyman403
      @Freakyman403 Před 2 měsíci +6

      and an additional 5 years for every person who took their own life because of this.

    • @davefave4351
      @davefave4351 Před 2 měsíci

      That would total over 900 years!

    • @merlin-1946
      @merlin-1946 Před 2 měsíci

      Sounds about right@@davefave4351

  • @2learn4ever
    @2learn4ever Před 2 měsíci +26

    The question in my mind after hearing all about this case is why on earth would Fujitsu need to access the system in the first place, and if they did access it then why would they change the balance?

    • @canalboating
      @canalboating Před 2 měsíci +10

      I think they were aware of known errors within the horizon system, so to cover it up they would access the accounts and alter the figures to cover this up

    • @TrevorHerbert-dj1jl
      @TrevorHerbert-dj1jl Před 2 měsíci +2

      ​@@canalboatingwell said. ❤❤❤

    • @TrevorHerbert-dj1jl
      @TrevorHerbert-dj1jl Před 2 měsíci +7

      ​@@canalboatingand that's what's gunna condemn them. Becos the postoffice have said there was no money missing in the end. So this proves they knew the postmasters were ( INNOCENT ). Which proves there (GUILT ) simple as that.❤❤❤

    • @davidrenton
      @davidrenton Před 2 měsíci +3

      that's expected they can access it, i work in the industry, the developer , reseller of any system such as this would need access for upgrades, troubleshooting, training and so on.
      It would be really strange if they could'nt remotely access it. I on far less costly systems was doing this 20+ years ago, in fact it was common even going back to the 90's, 80,Pre Internet.
      The PO would be fully aware and it would be part of the contract that Fujitsu could access it.
      In my Job for instance , i can access multiple systems, multiple clients, all across the world , even on request by the client for a particular task or pre emptive maintence, upgrades etc.
      I can do this from my home, and i am not Fujitsu

    • @joburke1552
      @joburke1552 Před 2 měsíci

      Its not that they were " covering it up " if " investigators had asked for the correct printouts, everything would be clearly set out. They didn't.

  • @p24hrsmith
    @p24hrsmith Před 2 měsíci +5

    By not telling the courts that the system COULD be accessed remotely she perverted the course of justice which is a criminal offence so why has she still not been arrested?????

  • @marqbeatty2694
    @marqbeatty2694 Před 2 měsíci +9

    If there's such a thing as genuine British justice remaining in our country, ex P.O. CEO Paula Vennells should be arrested; questioned; charged if any unearthed crimes meet the appropriate legal threshold and then sent for trial at Crown court. If found guilty after a trial, one would imagine a custodial sentence would be the most appropriate punishment.

  • @teresabrown2098
    @teresabrown2098 Před 2 měsíci +12

    Why hasn't Paula Vennals been charged??

  • @TJ34644
    @TJ34644 Před 2 měsíci +8

    Why is Vennels above the law. The police need to arrest and charge her for this. The evidence against her is overwhelming. Her just saying she can’t comment on this because it’s an ongoing inquiry is a joke

  • @keithnaylor1981
    @keithnaylor1981 Před 2 měsíci +6

    Sadly compensation in £££ does not erase the horror felt by innocent people being labelled as criminals with prison records. It’s now time that those responsible see what it’s like to be behind bars, for a long time.

  • @BrianMacpherson1970
    @BrianMacpherson1970 Před 2 měsíci +6

    You can never give back those years of stress and horrific onslaught of honest postmasters who are now cleared, they should be very well compensated

  • @paulsharp2565
    @paulsharp2565 Před 2 měsíci +11

    With each new revelation this just gets worse. Nowhere to run anymore. She's guilty of having innocent people wrongly incarcerated. I can't see any other option than a lengthy prison sentence

  • @andym.6141
    @andym.6141 Před 2 měsíci +15

    Vennells et al did this because they believed they could get away with it. So we must examine why they thought that. Should long jail sentences ultimately arrive for P.O. executives then it might just make executives of other companies operating in the U.K. think twice about doing whatever they think they can get away with.

  • @bendarling5573
    @bendarling5573 Před 2 měsíci +37

    It continues to be a joy to live in a country where those who hold positions of real power so routinely seem to be terrifyingly cold-blooded sociopaths. Sociopaths who behave as though they were assured from the start that they would never be held accountable like the little people. And who, indeed, have always got away with it. Will that finally change now? They will fight tooth and nail to make sure it doesn’t. We shall see what happens.

    • @smellslikethinice1107
      @smellslikethinice1107 Před 2 měsíci +5

      Nothing will happen, it's the UK. Nothing ever happens to people with wealth, power and connections. This is what has alwaya happened in a "class based" country.

    • @monipenny408
      @monipenny408 Před 2 měsíci

      UK is a criminal rogue state!
      It is now official, U$UK both are funding and backing the gazan ge no side under UNSC and ICJ ruling.

    • @theenigmaticgamer
      @theenigmaticgamer Před 2 měsíci +2

      Sir Ed Davey ran for the hills as soon as the story broke and I understand he was the minister in charge at the time as part of the slimy Clegg coalition. Strangely silent on the subject for a politician.

    • @sarangistudent8614
      @sarangistudent8614 Před 2 měsíci

      @@theenigmaticgamerslimy Tory coalition, you mean. It was the TORIES IN CHARGE, not the Lib Dem’s, the Tories. Cameron was prime minister and he was a Conservative. They bought in £9k student fees etc, the Tories did, not Lib Dem not anyone else. The buck should have stopped with the Tories, but they managed to blame everything on the Lib Dem’s. There’s a lesson there for anyone wanting to get into bed with the devil.

    • @daveallsopp320
      @daveallsopp320 Před 2 měsíci +2

      You just need to look at the BLIAR and what he did

  • @user-eu6nq6ys9i
    @user-eu6nq6ys9i Před 2 měsíci +10

    How cruel these officials were to watch 900 innocent people persecuted and ruined. No sympathy, no mercy and a highly illegal campaign zealously pursued against small business people. Every person who told the sub postmasters the lie that they were the only one accused should be prosecuted. Not just the people at the top. " Just following orders" must not be an acceptable defense. It is depressing to think how many knew what they were doing and no brave whistleblowers among them for so many years.

  • @showlett33
    @showlett33 Před 2 měsíci +8

    Her Sunday job makes this all the more damning

    • @banjopete
      @banjopete Před 2 měsíci

      There are plenty of Ratbags in all Churches, Plenty.

  • @Trevor_Austin
    @Trevor_Austin Před 2 měsíci +4

    Remote access in itself is not a problem. What really counts are unaudited remote transactions. Every single entry in a computer based accounting system must have an audit trail. No trail, no system integrity. Now combine that with system bugs, deficiencies and faults and we have an unsafe accounting system. But don’t worry anyone, Fujitsu have now been awarded the contract to provide a digital ID for British citizens.

  • @ginvr
    @ginvr Před 2 měsíci +13

    Jail for Paula Vennells

  • @SandraBonney
    @SandraBonney Před 2 měsíci +9

    Is there something they're not talking about going on here? Was the remote accessing about stealing money and kick backs?

    • @priscillaroberts7945
      @priscillaroberts7945 Před 2 měsíci +2

      I thought that ages ago. The money wasn't taken from customers benefits,pensions, savings etc so where was it being taken from to show a loss? The post office must not know how much money it was making to not know what was missing and where from. Very dodgy.

  • @ooops2529
    @ooops2529 Před 2 měsíci +5

    So who stole the money? If someone external to post office workers remote accessed these computers and took money, isnt it time Fujitsu workers were investigated??

  • @markwalker4142
    @markwalker4142 Před 2 měsíci +5

    This beyond a public enquiry now . There is more than reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct and that has to take precedent now . The enquiry should be suspended awaiting the criminal investigation outcome . The public must demand this.

  • @nothandmade9686
    @nothandmade9686 Před 2 měsíci +15

    Remember the Post Office is state owned.

    • @mothermovementa
      @mothermovementa Před 2 měsíci +4

      That's what makes it truly horrifying

    • @bn9969
      @bn9969 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Royal mail was always a government company...?

    • @fasthracing
      @fasthracing Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@bn9969 It was privatized by Vince Cable.

    • @jjefferyworboys8138
      @jjefferyworboys8138 Před 2 měsíci

      That makes us all complicit then !

    • @fasthracing
      @fasthracing Před 2 měsíci

      @@jjefferyworboys8138 No it doesn't. What is does do though is make us financially liable.

  • @maryhook9478
    @maryhook9478 Před 2 měsíci +5

    If there is any remnants of Justice left in this country Vennells should be prosecuted and serve gaol time.

  • @MiaMidol
    @MiaMidol Před 2 měsíci +4

    Some bloody whistleblower = honest person .............

  • @johnsymons6862
    @johnsymons6862 Před 2 měsíci +11

    Like to see them in court!

  • @NormallyNige
    @NormallyNige Před 2 měsíci +15

    guaranteed she wont face anything like justice

    • @smellslikethinice1107
      @smellslikethinice1107 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Of course she won't. People like her, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, and Cameron lie low for the dust to settle, then come out for their peerage.

    • @TesterAnimal1
      @TesterAnimal1 Před 2 měsíci

      Unless some white knight sponsors a private prosecution.

    • @fasthracing
      @fasthracing Před 2 měsíci

      I think as this one is so much in the public domain on this one occasion justice may be served.

    • @smellslikethinice1107
      @smellslikethinice1107 Před 2 měsíci

      @@fasthracing I was thinking the same...outrage just won't go away, like a curry stain. But no time served, apart from the peasants. That's the problem with the UK...Still clinging to an archaic " class system " that most mature countries abandoned decades ago. Golly Gosh.

  • @williamweb9782
    @williamweb9782 Před 2 měsíci +3

    I cannot get my head around Fujitsu having read and write access to the postmaster accounts. Why were the PO agreeable to a stunt like that? The great problem with putting people in jail is that Paula Vennells is not the only one but she does appear to have been caught red handed.

  • @rubiccube8953
    @rubiccube8953 Před 2 měsíci +8

    Where did the money go? How did they prosecute anybody without tracking the stolen money? The horizon system showed a loss in money but the accounts or assets of the sub postmasters showed no increase. Maybe one or two could have hidden the money but all of them?

    • @usernamename2978
      @usernamename2978 Před 2 měsíci +3

      It was an unusual accounting system - no double-entry, no audit trail, just a black box that said "This is what should be in the till: never mind how I know". Add that to management that assumed postmasters were as crooked as they were and we see the result.

    • @andrealilley3210
      @andrealilley3210 Před 26 dny

      There was not physical money, it was just numbers on the screen that was supposed to represent what was in the till.

    • @rubiccube8953
      @rubiccube8953 Před 26 dny

      @@andrealilley3210 Same difference.

    • @josephinedewar4469
      @josephinedewar4469 Před 25 dny

      ​@@andrealilley3210It was physical money that the accused Sub Masters had to pay, that's why many went bankrupt. So where did that go?

  • @iansankey6320
    @iansankey6320 Před 2 měsíci +4

    There is a flip side to this, I set a business up in 2008. Paid my VAT & PAYE via the post office. I had receipt of payment by Post Office Counters Limited. The cheques cleared my account and I supplied HMRC with the proof and obtained the cheques back from the bank as proof. HMRC stated I had not paid HMRC and the money was still owing. £14K in total. Can I have my money back?

    • @MI7DJT
      @MI7DJT Před 2 měsíci

      PAYE is illegal. It isn't profit. And HMRC = Hello Mr Roths Child. It doesn"t go back into the country ;)

  • @clowncarqingdao
    @clowncarqingdao Před 2 měsíci +7

    Vennells needs to either be sorted out for lack of oversight and inability to run the PO, or be arrested and charged with offenses that lead to wrongful convictions.

  • @ronmatthews1738
    @ronmatthews1738 Před 2 měsíci +10

    It is difficult to see this as other than a criminal conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Luckily for Paula Vennells, the bosses never have to face the consequences of their actions. This will all be swept under the carpet.

    • @Jon-xw9om
      @Jon-xw9om Před 2 měsíci

      Can we add in false imprisonment/fraud/obtaining money by deception/perjury/false accounting? It's bingo crime day.

  • @paulmelkis2976
    @paulmelkis2976 Před 2 měsíci +5

    why isn't Paul vennells on remand ? Any one else would be.

    • @davidbisping5000
      @davidbisping5000 Před 2 měsíci

      Because she is part of those better than us, they never get arrested

  • @davidsmith2440
    @davidsmith2440 Před 2 měsíci +5

    Paula can’t handle the truth how does she live with herself and what was done🤬🤬

  • @jellybean6582
    @jellybean6582 Před 2 měsíci +6

    Similar revelations will play out down the line regarding the "safe and effective" roll out

  • @paulbrightwell3621
    @paulbrightwell3621 Před 2 měsíci +7

    The Police need to start their investigation now and stop using the public inquiry as an excuse for delay - they risk being accused of a cover up to protect those who are part of the establishment. Vernell's et al need to experience justice and if found guilty they should not only go to prison for a significant time but also lose their post office public sector pensions and be made to pay back any bonuses that they received from any acts of lying. The public inquiry also needs to establish who in the civil service also knew about these crimes and hold them to account to. Justice needs to happen and been seen to have happened.

    • @fasthracing
      @fasthracing Před 2 měsíci

      They have been "investigating" for the last 2 years or so.

  • @paulstarr6316
    @paulstarr6316 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Any normal person with an ounce of integrity would have understood that 900 sub postmasters involved in criminality was a ludicrous idea, but Vennells won't pay the price.Her type will have powerful friends & influence. I understand she was involved with the church so I suggest she dusts off her Bible starts reading it.She may believe there's a heaven but I suggest she prepares for the other possibility.

  • @knockschool
    @knockschool Před 2 měsíci +3

    One very disturbing thing is the goverment still gives contracts to fujitsu,. These contracts are worth millions this has to be corruption. ?

  • @alenkerr8533
    @alenkerr8533 Před 2 měsíci +8

    Jail her now

  • @marknicholson2281
    @marknicholson2281 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Needs to be arrested and sent to prison. Despicable.

  • @steveng6788
    @steveng6788 Před 2 měsíci +4

    SHE SHOULD SPEND YEARS IN JAIL FOR THIS

  • @craigknight3815
    @craigknight3815 Před 2 měsíci +3

    To fully understand the issue we have to understand that Postmasters were trusted, they had a position of authority. This was taken from them, they did everything to be a valued member of society and this was taken by corrupt liars. Yet those liars are not in prison for ruining lives.

  • @wilderbeest773
    @wilderbeest773 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Hope she is watching, worrying and will soon be dealt with by the full force of the law at long last.

    • @juiceterry5330
      @juiceterry5330 Před 2 měsíci +1

      " full force of the law" that's a joke now isn't it?

  • @mark.lawrence
    @mark.lawrence Před 2 měsíci +5

    you have to be an empathy deleted human being to subject honest people to such misery...

  • @jayturner3397
    @jayturner3397 Před 2 měsíci +4

    So if they stole the money how come NONE was recovered 🤔..red flag to any investigator 😮

  • @macca9770
    @macca9770 Před 2 měsíci +5

    ‘Some bloody whistleblower’…..!

    • @usernamename2978
      @usernamename2978 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Yes, it takes the shine off the image that Second Sight has tried to project (valiant seekers after truth, cruelly set aside by the Post Office). The advice seemed to be "Don't say too much, because you might be found out" (some "bloody whistleblower" might point out that you're lying).

  • @andiharper4498
    @andiharper4498 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Surely there is sufficient evidence to directly arrest, charge and remand Vennells. Remand would serve as a protective custody until trial which would be post public enquiry findings. There must be a real risk Vennells will dispose of her assets, abscond or self harm.

  • @beammeup8458
    @beammeup8458 Před 2 měsíci +5

    We illegally hold Julian Assage in prison for telling the truth. YET THIS WOMAN WHO HAS CAUSED SUCH MISERY WALKS FREE !!

    • @josephinedewar4469
      @josephinedewar4469 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Yes! He was a " whistle blower! For telling the truth he's imprisoned!! How ironic!

  • @BigGollywog
    @BigGollywog Před 2 měsíci +4

    With the Post Office scandal and the similar Libor scandal, we really do live in a corrupt tin-pot country.
    I hate how the accusations are pointed at "The Post Office" rather than at all the specific people involved. The criminal case should target them, not the Post Office which is now made up of different people. Vennells and others should be personally penalised for this, not the tax payer through Post Office pay outs.

  • @philbrown8181
    @philbrown8181 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Any and every large system like Horizon will have remote/support access built in. They must have, to enable support teams to do their job and correct issues. Horizon is no different to any other such system.

  • @angelus2563
    @angelus2563 Před 2 měsíci +5

    Where did all the money that was wrongfully taken/penalised from the postmasters have gone to?

    • @fasthracing
      @fasthracing Před 2 měsíci +1

      Into the Post Office coffers

  • @Centurion464
    @Centurion464 Před 2 měsíci +3

    That woman has to be thrown in jail immediately. Anyone would’ve been arrested by now. Disgusting!

  • @noumanchoudry3147
    @noumanchoudry3147 Před 2 měsíci +3

    The whole meeting was how to avoid blame and keep convicting innocent people

  • @Celisar1
    @Celisar1 Před 2 měsíci +3

    The real question is who took all that money?

  • @doughill1945
    @doughill1945 Před 2 měsíci +6

    PV was listd as appearing before Inquiry on 22 May. The ITV clip mentions "July" has it been reschduled ?

  • @astroflyinsights
    @astroflyinsights Před 2 měsíci +2

    And now they award Fujitsu the CBDC contract, final nail in the coffin of British freedom to be anything but a consumer.

  • @Jane-rc2rk
    @Jane-rc2rk Před 2 měsíci +3

    She is such a good liar! She hardly bats an eyelid. She should be imprisoned for misconduct in a public office

  • @user-ht1yp9qn6e
    @user-ht1yp9qn6e Před 2 měsíci +4

    I heard this morning they spent 100 Million covering this up, well no wonder the P.O. is struggling.

    • @usernamename2978
      @usernamename2978 Před 2 měsíci +1

      It wasn't a problem: they just reached into taxpayers' pockets. Plenty more where that came from!

    • @josephinedewar4469
      @josephinedewar4469 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@usernamename2978And put up the cost of stamps!!

  • @josephobrien2142
    @josephobrien2142 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Jailed for the term she was aware of the scandal is an appropriate punishment I think?🤔

  • @jonnywilson6433
    @jonnywilson6433 Před 2 měsíci +3

    The Police are investigating this as a criminal complaint but have said it could take "years" before they finish and charge someone. A journalist needs to find out why it will take so long when there is so much evidence out there already that is more than a smoking gun. Real justice also involves speed and realistically there's no reason why it should take more than 12 months after the inquiry is finished to bring charges.

  • @s.reeves6549
    @s.reeves6549 Před 2 měsíci +3

    I remember clearly a couple of times my screens go from the front office to the back office and move around changing my system in 2009 -2014 and after reporting discreprancies at end of account balance I saw it was being altered by Fujitsu the following morning, prior to start of business my Horizon system was not on UK time so they may have thought it was about 06:00hrs UK time.