Re: Mr Bates Versus The Post Office

On 01/04/2024 10:58, Bob Eager wrote:

On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 09:50:35 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

Ian Hart, who plays Rutherford (the forensic accountant), looks the
spitting image of Paul Whitehouse.
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The saga is still ongoing. There were a massive number of wrongful
prosecutions and convictions, and it will take years to overturn them
all.

 Well, there is supposed to be an Act of Parliament to do most of them in
one go.

The Public Enquiry is still on-going and about to get interesting as the senior Post Office staff are now being called to give evidence.
But since the TV drama went out several cases have emerged which show just how far-ranging the effects have been.
A group of children of sub-postmasters are now seeking compensation. In once case a couple made bankrupt by the Post Office left the country taking their 11-year old with them. She was severely bullied at her new school because she couldn't speak the language. Others were bullied because of their parent's lost reputations.
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68543963>
In another case a post office owner was accused of murdering his wife and staging a robbery to cover it up. There was no direct DNA evidence to link him to the actual killing but the prosecution alleged his motive was that she knew he'd been stealing and he killed her to silence her. It's by no means certain that he didn't kill her but what was once a small doubt is now a much larger one. It doesn't help that the police botched aspects of the investigation and lost evidence.
<https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/13/post-office-owner-says-horizon-system-was-used-to-frame-him-for-wifes-murder>
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Bruce Horrocks
Surrey, England