Live: Real-life Mr Bates attends government's Post Office inquiry after ITV drama
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- Опубликовано: 15 янв 2024
- Watch live as Alan Bates appears before the government's inquiry into the Post Office scandal on Tuesday, 16 January.
The former subpostmaster who has led the campaign for justice in the Horizon scandal will be questioned by MPs on Tuesday.
More than 700 subpostmasters and subpostmistresses were given criminal convictions after Fujitsu’s faulty Horizon software made it appear as though money was missing at their branches.
The real-life Mr Bates, whose campaign for justice has been depicted in the ITV drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, told Sky News ahead of the committee hearing that his focus was on pushing for swift compensation for the victims.
“They should be moving heaven and earth to get it done and get it done fast," he said.
Nick Read, chief executive of the Post Office, and Paul Patterson, Europe director at Fujitsu, are both due to appear.
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Fujitsu is a partner of Infosys. Infosys is owned by Rishi Sunak's wife's family.
Education secretary, Gillian Keegan's husband was the CEO of Fujitsu.
The Tory Government gave 4.9 billion in contracts to Fujitsu after the Horizon Scandal.
Sunak alone accounted for 3.6 billion.
Fujitsu were a supplier of the NHS program for IT ( NHSPfIT), a disastrous scheme that sought to digitise NHS Medical information. When the scheme failed in 2011, at a cost of at least 2.7 billion to the taxpayer. Despite the fact the IT system did not work, Fujitsu sued the department of health for almost 700 million and won.
Funny how the Tories haven't mentioned this yet, so here I am spreading the good word of truth..
where can i find out more about this? so much is written but where can we fact check x
@@horseyLifeHax it requires doing research, which most of the general public are incapable of.
No conspiracy, and all available through freedom of information.
Start digging, start learning.
Government websites, front of house website, Wikipedia, parliamentary records.
It doesn't take much to see whats going on, it just takes understanding.
Msm is all backed and lobbied by the corrupt, so can't be trusted.
@@horseyLifeHax follow the money or alterior motive..
Rwanda project - removing your human rights as a UK citizen. Simples.
And here it is. That's the reason.
you tube must be over worked trying to look for ways to silene the truth and missed this one
I worked in IT for over 30 years and the fact that Fujitsu and the Post Office have LIED about remote access to Horizon terminals makes them both completely culpable in this whole sordid miscarriage of justice. I have done the calculations, and a simple solution to the compensation problem is this: Number of sub-postmasters x average annual income x average years working for PO since Horizon went live. This would give an initial fund of 7,000 x £30,000 x 10 = £2.1 billion. Those 983 sub-postmasters that were prosecuted should also be awarded an additional £100K for pain and suffering. This would add another £98,300,000 to the fund. What's the problem? Fujitsu and Post Office must pay up now!!!!! There is no point in dragging the inquiry out any further as we now know Fujitsu and the Post Office are criminals.
Yeah why don't you send them an email and they can wrap the whole scandal up.
@@wag0NE😂
The judges are culpable too. I expect that all the unsafe judges will appear before the inquiry to answer to Judge William's rottweilers. Judges are the last bastion of justice for the weak against the powerful. These judges failed in this fundamental role. They must be held accountable along with the investigators, the solicitors, the barristers, who failed. These judges allowed the abuse of rules of evidence, rules of disclosure, rules of interviews under PACE, rules of behaviour of experts. These unsafe judges are easily identified. They can be tasked with suspension of pay or pension until they have finished to personally unwind all their unsafe convictions. Justice must we seen to be done. The opaque world of the competence and diligence of judges must be shown to the public by judge Williams.
to turn a conviction over must mean a judge made a mistake. imagine trying to say that in a court in england.with out getting jail time .
The PO management were happy to take their salaries but not the responsibility or have the ability to do their jobs properly.
Seriously why so many enquiries, get on with giving these people back their lives, we don’t want to hear from all these people
I listened to the whole 3:12:35 of this - gobsmacked at the injustice, the obfuscation STILL happening, the lies, the cover up, the sclerotic pace to fix it, the petty focus on tiny theoretical legal cracks. Just RIP OFF THE F**KING BANDAGE, make amends for the ruined lives - and go after the bastards who are responsible!!
The whole scandal is disgusting, all the years this has been going on and their are politicians who have one nothing to solve this . They all blame each other. Millions of pounds are given to this company who are responsible. Non of the parties are blameless in this and should bring these people to the courts.
And the legal costs of the victims should not be paid by the victim or deducted from the victim’s compensation payment.
the courts have tried to rejail victims for not paying compo to P.O. time .they was going to send one victim back to jail for 8 years .the P.O. claimed tax back on compo for money that they got criminaly and yet not paid back.all while they new people was not guilty they still frauded more out of it.the grift just keeps giving to the rich powerfull pillers of our community with knighoods and titles power wealth and the full backing of the church of england .what part of this system cant claim they not fully got all fat fingers and toes into.justice system guilty .goverment guilty po, guilty .fujitsu guilty.just the innacent punished .20 years this is the result .and the tax man must pay more money f to pay more fat solicitors .and we told this will not bring justice .no police looking into this but they got 20 officers looking into angala raynor.becouse the daily mail would not shut up untill they did .
I’m very glad this is being discussed, but I’ve frankly had enough of this being discussed now. Everybody knows what needs to happen and it’s fairly straight forward; convictions need to be overturned and people need to paid out. Stop the red tape! There is nothing the Post Office can do to save face here, they should be on their knees apologising and accepting the consequences of their appalling handling of the case.
So in 4 years this guy done absolutely nothing
They are all mad as far as 'compensation' is concerned. People on £100,000's are deciding on what is or not a valid expense where there are no historical documents. 'Compensation' should be set at level that makes sure that those affected are more than adequately compensated. If more they can put in an additional claim. For false imprisonment up to £350,000. Plus £60k for any expenses p.a. plus defamation up to £350k plus refund of money fraudulently taken. So someone who was imprisoned 20 years ago would be £1.2 million plus £700k plus any lawyers fess and money falsely taken plus interest.So £2million is the starting point plus interest. Its less than Fujitsu makes in a year. Anyway their salary bill will be cut once some are sacked or go to jail.
How are they still allowed to call it a ``bug`` a ``flaw``. Its a workable part of the software. An accessible working back door doesn't just pop into a computer programme, so therefore it was a premeditated choice for it to be there. Its bad enough it being intentionally put into the system, then comes the highly immoral policy to use it.
We must not forget the Director of the Public Prosecution Service in all this.
that had no power .stop trying to hint this starma's fault.cps did not have a skin in this game p.o. did.
It absolutely is his fault! What part of Director of Prosecutions do you not understand?
It was his job to oversee the system and pick up anomalies. He failed/refused to do the job he was paid for.
@@trudilm3864 P.O. had it's own power to prosicute by passing the cps .you know this your just trying to convince some thick fuckers who not sure .and what is your end game here .to convince us that the party not in power is to blame .are you mad or just fueled on hate that much you want the tory to stay in power .your part of this evil now by anabling it to want more of the same .
At least he's got a house... I can't even afford that... Wonder if that's what the original drama was supposed to stoke.
Nearly 3 months on from what was said by the Prime Minister are they still waiting for Financial redress squashing of the convictions and criminal proceedings taken against the people who put them in that position and they lived alive for nearly 25
Everyone of these po boss people are downright lying through their teeth to cover up for each other... Why the hell they just never told the truth all those tears ago and now is beyond belief it so should never have come to this and those people's live would not have been destroyed... Just goes to show no one can ever bury the truth forever 😮
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Is this the same as saying that replacing Horizon costs approximately 137 Times less than a Test and Trace App which never materialised.....?🤔 Could We ask Alan Bates to have a look at this please......?
Nick Read is pathetic speak the truth man
The post office management think they are above the law
David and Goliath
Sort the sound out!