For years POs had apparently always balanced up using "pen and paper" without any problems - Why wasn't' "pen and paper" run alongside Horizon and periods with discrepancies  micro analysed for the differences between the two systems ?

The people at the top look after one another, hence the CBE when she retired. Always been the same. Bankers cost every man and woman a fortune, no one in jail.

The common man parks is car for 10 minutes too long - £100 fine.

We live in a punishment society handed down by those in authority.

Just look what the London Mayor is doing.

The Ivory Towers need knocking over.

(not in the brightest of moods this morning, rant over, need to set my mind to form study mode)

Have a winning day.

The present London Mayor is one of the most luckiest politicians to graze the earth. He's astonishing stupid and naive (his legal associates/colleagues would testify to this) yet he's London Mayor 2nd successive term; Ms Tessa Jowell (architect of London 2012 Olympic Games) ought to have been Mayor but for her illness, and ethnicity; London is a land of immigrants.

If Mr Khan was to contest a Parliamentary seat outside London he might not even be selected as a candidate as a Labour rep let alone by electorate as their MP. The bloke is as thick as two-planks of wood. He goes about in a bullet-proof Range Rover costing taxpayers £60k just for the bullet-proof windscreens and windows.

Mr Sadiq Khan is a pillock with a lucky wand!

agree facts as said let some of those at the top who knew have some discomfort and stress !

at the end of the day ...nothing will really change !

Never considered that Dambuster

impossible  'London is a land of immigrants.'

I was recently on the tube and called 'white trash' by a delightfully oversized black woman dressed all in pink, for daring to tell her that her shoe had fallen off. London is now such a lovely place.

'swiftynifty', seriously? So out of order, if so. These days non-whites think they rule London some parts certainly true eg Southall/East End.

It's so sad as the local culture has been eroded and discipline long gone; the willingness to "cheat" the benefit system their right. But, quality and productivity repeatedly compromised.

'acey', what is embellished? I fancy Shish-kin for the Gold Cup after the demise of Gerri; kebab-boy nearly won the darts competition. It could be good omen.

Same here acey.  There should be an investigation to find out who gave the orders - Post Office, Government or Civil Service - to carry out each individual act of arrest, and expose each and every individual who lied to each Subpostmaster/mistress in order to procure their false verdicts.
Each person responsible for the outrages and persecution visited upon these poor people should be identified and put under the scrutiny of the justice system.  In short, they should be made to suffer the same stress and agonies that these poor peole have.
As for Vennels the bsstard who recommended her for an OBE should be identified too.
It all reveals once again how the unseen and self-protected conspiracies of UK government can flourish without a question from someone within.
However I won;t be holding my breath.  If Hillsborough taught us anything it is how expert these bsstards are at avoiding prosecution.

A friend of mine has just retired from the Met after 35 years, he said the amount of foreign benefit cheats costs the country billions, as lots of them have the same names and
you just can't prove anything, and he said, they know what they're doing as well, they even have (Dodgy)lawyers who tell them every loophole .

they are all at it .......those at the top more so.

I've one foolproof solution. It's finger-printing - nothing beats it. Many countries in the Far East and South East Asia have them. Maybe that's why very few foreigners eg those inhabiting UK Plc in droves can be found there.

£250k might seem a lot of money as compensation for a postmaster.However, taking into consideration inflation is only equivalent to about £150k in 2000. But, £250k now will not even buy a 2-bed flat in London as opposed to a 3-bed semi-detached in year 2000.

thing is they will let the court process drag on

Heads need to roll.

People should to held accountable. The ones in charge at the time need to be jailed as a warning to others.

This is why things go wrong, because the people in charge know they’ll get away with it.

What I don't understand is where is the 100s of millions pounds that they apparently lost. If the system is a load of **** is it possible that while there were 100s of sub-postmasters with theoretical losses, there are similar number with theoretical surpluses. The whole think stinks to high heaven and  the full story has still not been told. Post Office Management, Fujitsu, auditors have many questions to answer.

Also, Fujitsu will need to answer for their inept software and the part they played in this scandal; Fujitsu did not hold their hand-up and admitted there was inconsistencies and unexplained behaviours in the Horizon software.

Fujitsu is a multinational company worth many $bn. I'm sure Fujitsu could contribute to the any future compensation package; Fujitsu in Japanese means faithlessness; inconstancy; insincerity; falsehood. 

How ironic?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12932027/post-office-scandal-itv-drama-gilded-lives.html.    sickening