Post office inquiry: Fujitsu manager called bankrupted subpostmaster 'nasty chap'

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  • Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
  • A Fujitsu employee called a subpostmaster who was bankrupted by the company's faulty computer system a "nasty chap" in not-seen-before email sent internally in 2003.
    Peter Sewell, who was in the Post Office Account Security Team at Fujitsu, said that Lee Carrington was a "nasty man" after the subpostmaster had threatened the company with legal action after losing all his money due to no fault of his own.
    Fujitsu provided the Post Office with the Horizon computer system for individual subpostmasters. This system wrongly said that hundreds of subpostmasters had been committing fraud and more than 700 were wrongly convicted.
    The email was revealed at the ongoing Post Office Horizon Inquiry.
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  • @djh1947
    @djh1947 Год назад +1276

    Sewell. A typical corporate bully. Brave when he thinks he's untouchable. Spoiling his pants when made to explain himself.

    • @Project-Masculinity
      @Project-Masculinity Год назад +43

      He doesn’t remember anything just like the Labour Government who was in power when it all started

    • @johnmoore9862
      @johnmoore9862 Год назад +105

      Or the tories who’ve had 13 years to sort it out.

    • @david-pb4bi
      @david-pb4bi Год назад

      @@Project-MasculinityGet back under your stone, you conservatives have destroyed this country, and we will never forget it.

    • @zedcarr6128
      @zedcarr6128 Год назад +69

      @@Project-Masculinity This is a corporate issue and not a political one. The government owns The Post Office, but it doesn't manage it. You can't even pin the blame on The Tories for this one. The buck stops at the CEO and then the management going down the corporate ladder, plus Fujitsu of course and their management ladder.
      This is a classic example of people working in multimillion / multibillion dollar organisations, receiving very generous salaries, bonuses, pensions and severance packages, and NOT wanting to stick their heads above the trench to say what they ACTUALLY KNOW about these VERY powerful and profitable organisations, for fear of it affecting them career wise or financially. THAT'S THE PROBLEM!

    • @MrSupermanbe
      @MrSupermanbe Год назад +79

      He is a nasty chap, this Sewell fellow.

  • @trevortrevortsr2
    @trevortrevortsr2 Год назад +715

    This guy should be jailed for perverting the course of justice

    • @maz-nz7ev
      @maz-nz7ev Год назад +29

      Perverting the course of justice and malicious prosecution aren’t mentioned enough in all this. Absolutely smacks of it.

    • @spiritualdeath101
      @spiritualdeath101 Год назад +12

      it is all very troubling - the culture which pervades the Uk - is what you think you can get away with. I have wondered how long it can go on like this. The erosion of trust is insidious. I just don't know how they restore trust - the inquiry tries to do this but I am not sure many people watch it seriously - they are likely to dismiss it as a whitewash - like a jury dismisses the possibility that a sub-postmaster could be innocent. Jason Beer's voice does carry a certain moral force but that's all. If you criticise the new IT system at work your job is at risk - you jeer at anyone who is slow to use the latest gadget/app/gizmo. So reliant on machines - we are losing touch with our own souls.

    • @michaelmcginley7930
      @michaelmcginley7930 Год назад +4

      Agreed this guy will escape scot free.

    • @rosshilton
      @rosshilton Год назад +4

      @@michaelmcginley7930 He shouldn’t. Morally, ethically and professionally he clearly was not the mad for the job.
      I suspect if you look at his CV it will contain BS.

    • @michaelmcginley7930
      @michaelmcginley7930 11 месяцев назад +7

      Has amazing memory when it comes to exhonerating himself in the misra case

  • @freebornjohn2687
    @freebornjohn2687 Год назад +840

    These Fujitsu and Post Office officials are shitting themselves. I hope they are held accountable in a criminal court and imprisoned and then sued in a civil court.

    • @showlett33
      @showlett33 Год назад +19

      "Old school tie"

    • @UK_Sgt_7094
      @UK_Sgt_7094 Год назад +47

      if you think they are shitting themselves then your could be called naive, nothing will happen to these people, nothing, mark my words

    • @rosonoftom1655
      @rosonoftom1655 Год назад +16

      Sadly, I would have to agree with you.

    • @petermorffew9851
      @petermorffew9851 Год назад +20

      Sued for every last penny they have in their accounts and in assets, including their homes bought on the backs of these prosecutions.

    • @daveymach6941
      @daveymach6941 Год назад +20

      Sorry won't happen. Its UK law's which are bent towards how much money you have.!
      F Hall will happen. Sadly. 😢

  • @carolbamforth7475
    @carolbamforth7475 Год назад +608

    The lies they tell the inquiry is disgusting. He knows exactly what was happening back then. Trying to protect himself and his pension

    • @tonystewart4543
      @tonystewart4543 Год назад +50

      Another one with "selective memory" like Steve Bradshaw last week.
      We see through them

    • @andydudley1775
      @andydudley1775 Год назад +5

      why turn up to say i do not know .

    • @paulrichards6894
      @paulrichards6894 Год назад +9

      @andy...thats right...when they think they might incriminate themselves they get amnesia....i bet you if this had been alledged but with no written evidence this rat would have denied it....

    • @Pho909
      @Pho909 Год назад +12

      They should have their pension taken from them. Absolutely disgusted with the Post Office!! #justiceforthesubpostmasters

    • @emmethone2852
      @emmethone2852 Год назад

      The Ronald Reagan defence!

  • @robotjox77
    @robotjox77 Год назад +562

    If you're sat in front of a national enquiry board, 'I don't know ' shouldn't be an acceptable answer to any question. Britain has an integrity problem.

    • @roppa789
      @roppa789 Год назад +8

      Put yourself in his seat. Be honest now. What would you say in reply?
      If Johnson, Sunak, Piers Morgan, et al, can lie straight faced - what makes you imagine these people that have done wrong are going to own up to everything. “I can’t recall” or “I don’t know” seem the logical advice any barrister would advise (other than in criminal cases advice of “No Comment” as standard.

    • @johnwright9372
      @johnwright9372 Год назад +8

      Corporate mentality.

    • @rolandnelson6722
      @rolandnelson6722 Год назад +2

      He was saying he didn’t know… about himself.
      Not much you can do about that.
      He probably lives in a house.

    • @shingitai5882
      @shingitai5882 Год назад +17

      @@roppa789I think you have missed the point, if you were a decent person you wouldn’t have to be in a inquiry trying to explain what you wrote about someone’s character without any explanation to back up your comments.

    • @1inchPunchBowl
      @1inchPunchBowl Год назад +10

      @@roppa789 Just wait until this goes to a court. He will quickly find that "I don't know" "I don't remember" just helps to convict them.

  • @gent3284
    @gent3284 Год назад +241

    i want to see this guy behind bars more than anything

    • @sfsf6768
      @sfsf6768 Год назад

      Agree. Have watched so many of the hearings. Too many nasty trashy liars to mention but 2 who stood out as being quite deranged were stephen bradshaw and mandy talbot. Flora page is wonderful, as is mr henry who has the voice and charisma of an actor. All of the lawyers are doing a great job. I doubt there will be justice but at least these vermins faces are being seen all over the world.

    • @rb1062
      @rb1062 Год назад +16

      Along with Vennells and that blonde cow.

    • @wickedwitchoftheeast88
      @wickedwitchoftheeast88 8 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@rb1062 Angela Van Den Bogerd. She also went to Martin Griffiths widow and gave her false empathy for her husbands murder which it was and then the PO made her a one day offer for money and of course an NDA. Gina Griffiths should be given her chance to speak on behalf of her husband.

  • @boondoggle6
    @boondoggle6 Год назад +205

    He should now be put through what Lee Castletown had to experience for the last twenty years. No salary, no job and behind bars.

    • @100const
      @100const 9 месяцев назад +9

      And perhaps he should have to personally pay the victims

  • @elaber5
    @elaber5 Год назад +434

    Another awful man………shame on him, he destroyed peoples lives. Pass go and go straight to jail.

    • @86XFA
      @86XFA Год назад +20

      Go directlky to jail. Do NOT pass go. Do NOT collect £200 (or his pension). No rolling doubles or paying £50 here

    • @robertbaylis9714
      @robertbaylis9714 Год назад +13

      Pass GO forfeit pension and head straight to Prison.

    • @Simon_PieMan
      @Simon_PieMan 8 месяцев назад

      You mean ‘Don’t pass go’ - doesn’t deserve to collect cash on the way to jail.

  • @Trevor_Austin
    @Trevor_Austin Год назад +279

    Here’s another pension pot that needs to be emptied and distributed to convicted sub-postmasters.

    • @johnkemp908
      @johnkemp908 10 месяцев назад +6

      Don't stop there..... house and savings.

    • @julierogers1155
      @julierogers1155 8 месяцев назад +1

      Exactly.

  • @seanshearer2910
    @seanshearer2910 Год назад +177

    He is lying through his teeth. Perjury should be the very least of the charges filed against him. Vile horrible man.

  • @InkeyString
    @InkeyString Год назад +359

    They all need to held criminally accountable for the travesty they knowingly committed, named, shamed, pensions cancelled and imprisonment.

    • @geroffmilan3328
      @geroffmilan3328 Год назад +5

      💯🎯

    • @Hitchhiker007
      @Hitchhiker007 Год назад +19

      Their pensions used in compensation to their victim while they themselves are hung out to dry.

    • @mussie302
      @mussie302 Год назад +5

      Absolutely.

    • @ad_9476
      @ad_9476 Год назад +11

      Until this happens scandals like this will unfortunately continue to come to light. Free speech and whistleblowers blowers need to be protected!

    • @alridd7038
      @alridd7038 Год назад +4

      Another one for the witness protection program

  • @mrswinkyuk
    @mrswinkyuk Год назад +141

    And when no one goes to jail for this we'll know the true state of justice in this country.

    • @sadjaxx
      @sadjaxx Год назад +4

      Appalling

    • @peterteagleteagle9958
      @peterteagleteagle9958 Год назад +1

      Public inquiry s are normally used to bury things

    • @christinaoconnell7033
      @christinaoconnell7033 10 месяцев назад +1

      Public inquiry then what more
      Nothing happens? Can we as the Govt cancel their pension and all bonuses repaid into the Postmasters fund?

  • @jimg2850
    @jimg2850 Год назад +344

    Horizon software = no integrity
    Fujitsu executive = no integrity

    • @ANonymous-p5x5n
      @ANonymous-p5x5n Год назад +7

      Fujitsu’s current stance is more welcomed. £10 million won’t cut it, however.

    • @rb1062
      @rb1062 Год назад

      ​@@ANonymous-p5x5n Should be £10 billion.

    • @BillyKirbyUK
      @BillyKirbyUK Год назад

      Post Office Management = No integrity. And they are ultimately accountable! To the Crown!

    • @clowncarqingdao
      @clowncarqingdao 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@ANonymous-p5x5n Ten million seems fine to me. Each of the sub postmasters can have a happy life with that amount of money each as long as the executives in Fujitsu and the PO who created this are locked away.

    • @guypainter
      @guypainter 8 месяцев назад

      @@ANonymous-p5x5n All Fujitsu's UK operations should be asset stripped and liquidated to pay the victims, and the parent company permanently barred from any future operation in the UK.

  • @2008ajm
    @2008ajm Год назад +88

    His family must be so proud! What a coward

    • @rbnhd1144
      @rbnhd1144 9 месяцев назад

      They probably are just like him, monkey see monkey do.

    • @CodingAbroad
      @CodingAbroad 8 месяцев назад +1

      His wife knows for sure, but will she speak up?!

  • @tullochgorum6323
    @tullochgorum6323 Год назад +358

    This guy was an appalling witness. Either he needs dementia care, or he is strategically "forgetting" the actions that could put him into court for perversion of the course of justice.

    • @chefblanc
      @chefblanc Год назад

      a lot of elderly ones like this.. im afraid its multiple vaccines - rotted their brains..

    • @Melvin-le6zy
      @Melvin-le6zy Год назад +35

      He doesn't need dementia care but rather the "care" provided in one of His Majesty's prisons!

    • @Trevor_Austin
      @Trevor_Austin Год назад +26

      No. He wasn’t an appalling witness. He’s a disgusting, appalling person who shows us all how miscarriages of justice occur. He appears to be one of the drivers.

    • @Innilus
      @Innilus Год назад +12

      This guy gets paid too much! Has probably got a decent pension too.
      What a joke!

    • @ANonymous-p5x5n
      @ANonymous-p5x5n Год назад +7

      Definitely no dementia there.

  • @Mannin_Watch_Time
    @Mannin_Watch_Time Год назад +186

    Why should we believe anything this man says?

  • @PureMadMetal
    @PureMadMetal Год назад +129

    'Don't know' is a poor answer.
    It will be interesting to see how quickly our judicial system is employed to prosecute those responsible for this colossal miscarriage of justice.

    • @Pete-z6e
      @Pete-z6e Год назад +8

      Don’t hold your breath….Bleak House here we go!

    • @helenarmour184
      @helenarmour184 Год назад

      More chance of the titanic being raised, once again, an inquiry costing millions to the taxpayer, with ultimately nobody being held to account, where they’ll roll out the standard line “lessons will be/ have been learnt” now kindly move on, nothing to see hear, every single inquiry this country holds is just a blatant waste of taxpayers money with zero outcome other than a few appeasing words - the whole corrupt system is a joke - and we’re the mugs funding it all !!

    • @clowncarqingdao
      @clowncarqingdao 10 месяцев назад +1

      However, he does know with certainty that the other emails that we don't have were much nicer and fully proper!

  • @Expatkeys
    @Expatkeys Год назад +143

    All through his evidence he said on important issues that He couldn't remember but definitely remembers that he didn't say this about any other sub-postmasters. Pathetic jelly example of the majority of middle management. You see it every day.

    • @oliverplays9598
      @oliverplays9598 Год назад +4

      Maybe they all need to be hooked up to a lie detector machine

  • @mharris7380
    @mharris7380 Год назад +83

    Saw the whole thing earlier today, he is an evil, evil man. Another one who will protect the name and image of a legal fiction at all costs to others.

  • @realcapitalist1462
    @realcapitalist1462 Год назад +159

    The quiet fury of Flora Page (Counsel) was palpable. I hope and trust the likes of Sewell get his time in the dock in a criminal proceeding. We all need to see justice winning through in this case and others (eg Grenfell)

    • @ThePeage
      @ThePeage Год назад +9

      They should be forced to pay compensation to the victims even if they are bankrupted - prison is pointless for these people. Of course, it won't happen.

    • @realcapitalist1462
      @realcapitalist1462 Год назад +6

      @@ThePeage I certainly agree about compensation but I think this case is a moment where we all need to see the justice system do its job because no matter what walk of life we find ourselves in, we are all vulnerable to this kind of malfeasance at the hands of powerful institutions.

    • @mrmagpiepromotions
      @mrmagpiepromotions Год назад +7

      ​@@realcapitalist1462there will be no consequences for these people. There will be some token compensation payout (a pittance compared to what the victims lost) with a condition that they don't ask for more and don't talk about it again. The government will pay said pittance out of tax payers money then use it as an excuse why they had to cut somewhere else. Those responsible will go back to their homes and open a nice bottle of wine because everyone will forget about it in a few weeks because the press will drown it out with something else.

    • @realcapitalist1462
      @realcapitalist1462 Год назад +5

      @@mrmagpiepromotions I really hope you're wrong but I also have a sneaking feeling you may well be right! It will show just how rotten our society has become when all the checks and balances have been overcome by people who rule over us. What is the solution? I know what the French would be doing!

    • @ThePeage
      @ThePeage Год назад +6

      @realcapitalist1462
      On one level I agree but I think prison is expensive and they have already had enough taxpayers' money!
      Personally, I would like to see them living in the community at subsistence rates with anything additional they can raise/earn going into the compensation coffers - firstly of those wronged by their negligence/malfeasance, and then into the public purse to "pay their debt to society". If they are unable to get a job and need to claim from the taxpayer to live, then they work full-time in some sort of community service. We are having problems getting seasonal workers I understand! The publicity should be widespread (name and shame) so they are seen in society for what they are.... as Mr. Sewell is now.

  • @clarathordiss3663
    @clarathordiss3663 Год назад +37

    He takes 'squirm' to a whole new level.

  • @mohammed-nf7vb
    @mohammed-nf7vb Год назад +93

    My sympathy with innocent post Office employees

  • @adrianmacgrath5814
    @adrianmacgrath5814 Год назад +90

    This guy is clearly lying to a statutory enquiry.

  • @keegan773
    @keegan773 Год назад +130

    I watched this and Sewell spent most of the time saying he had no recollection or couldn’t remember events when asked questions despite the number of emails that had his name on them.
    When he did answer he was as vague as he could be and volunteered absolutely nothing. It was a case of dishonest self preservation.

    • @showlett33
      @showlett33 Год назад

      The first convictions were overturned in 2019, the fact that the Gov judges barristers police did nothing but sit on their hands until now allows enough time to pass where they believe they can claim not to recall in the hope there wont be enough evidence to convict. The old school tie network, as ever, working behind the scenes looking after itself

    • @CertifiedDynamite
      @CertifiedDynamite Год назад

      I have been following this for a few days now this guy struck me as the largest shitbag so far, right next to Stephen Bradshaw.

    • @wormthatturned8737
      @wormthatturned8737 Год назад +3

      Well he is taking the Sturgeon approach, worked OK for her and she had less months than this guy had years to have no recollection!

  • @eljay5746
    @eljay5746 Год назад +145

    I don't understand how someone so ignorant of his job managed to get to a position where he would converse with board members re cost analysis of change programmes yet cannot remember any of his responsibilities.

    • @misterbonzoid5623
      @misterbonzoid5623 Год назад +14

      Absolutely. A cavalcade of fools, liars and inadequates. I haven't seen the drama version, but I'm finding the current questioning fascinating. Mr. Bradshaw seemed to have benefitted handsomely from the Peter Principle.

    • @robbie_
      @robbie_ Год назад +23

      The scary thing about this is it probably sums up middle management in all our public services.

    • @dominicbritt
      @dominicbritt Год назад +3

      @@robbie_they are private sector and they are a British Company.

    • @robbie_
      @robbie_ Год назад +2

      @@dominicbritt The Post Office wasn't at the time (government is still the only shareholder) and ICL, who developed the system, was created by Tony Benn, a Minister in the Wilson government.

    • @errin-mp1zy
      @errin-mp1zy Год назад

      @@robbie_ Definitely.

  • @haydenharris3059
    @haydenharris3059 Год назад +73

    Does this liar know anything 😮
    So arrogantly dismissive 😮

    • @PMMagro
      @PMMagro 10 месяцев назад

      He knows hoe much extra taxpayer many he did bag year after year from this :)

    • @gingervirus2988
      @gingervirus2988 9 месяцев назад +1

      Spoiler alert: Fujitsu get given more Government contracts. Let’s not forget the mess they were involved in with the NHS national computer system failure and all the tens (or was it hundreds?) of millions they picked up there after all the threats of legal action!

    • @JacquelineMcdowall-x4r
      @JacquelineMcdowall-x4r 9 месяцев назад +1

      There all lying to cover their own arse

    • @franc9111
      @franc9111 7 месяцев назад

      @@gingervirus2988 Absolutely right - didn't they buy out ICL ? probably to grab their customer base.

  • @wills2552
    @wills2552 Год назад +58

    I'm sure we've all met some nasty pieces of work during our careers, but this is a whole new level of malevolence, people's liberty was on the line, lives have been taken, lives utterly ruined and that's what they had in charge.

    • @diane4488
      @diane4488 Год назад +1

      Yes, I totally agree.
      This man is disgusting.
      In all the investigations I've watched, so far, it seems all the staff were very poorly trained, didn't understand the law, shirked their responsibilities, were, and still are, prepared to tow the party line, had very low morals, and no respect for honesty and truth.
      Also no conscience regarding the pain and suffering they were personally causing.
      That includes Management, Investigation Officers, and Lawyers.
      I suspect the Post Office would have terminated employment for any staff who asked questions, or suggested that they were doing things wrong.
      Those up the top seem deliberately corrupt, constantly give answers that are unbelievable, and obscure the truth!
      Not only has it been a highly corrupt business, for at least the last two decades, but clearly it continues to be.
      Their practices are evil.

  • @BsktImp
    @BsktImp Год назад +71

    Seeing a pattern with all these inquiries with witnesses - under oath - having memories more selective than the best mass spectrometers available.

    • @Steve14ps
      @Steve14ps Год назад +3

      Same happened in Nuremberg in 1945

  • @petertaysum8947
    @petertaysum8947 Год назад +43

    "And why are we to believe that, Mr. Sewell?"
    Lack of conscience and selective memory loss, that question would haunt any normal person.
    Can only hope that their pensions, and the total of their bonuses paid are a small percentage of the damages that they face.

  • @ozodyssey5528
    @ozodyssey5528 Год назад +47

    Implausible deniability

  • @headhunter_4209
    @headhunter_4209 Год назад +187

    Fujitsu and the post office are both morally bankrupt and should both be shut down

    • @Picnicl
      @Picnicl Год назад

      They both lie in the sewer now. I hope that a nationwide demonstration outside of each Post Office is arranged to remind anyone who thinks events are far removed from their cosy little Post Office that frequenting them is feeding the fraudsters whose actions and inactions resulted in innocent people being jailed. Say 'P Off to the PO!'

    • @LordOfLight
      @LordOfLight Год назад +6

      You think the PO should be "shut down". Perhaps you'd like to think first.

    • @StuartJ
      @StuartJ Год назад

      ​@@LordOfLight not just the PO, but Fujitsu as well. They support too many important government IT systems.

    • @LordOfLight
      @LordOfLight Год назад +2

      @@StuartJ Sigh.................you think an outfit that "support[s] too many important government IT systems" should be shut down. Thinking isn't your strong point, is it.

    • @StuartJ
      @StuartJ Год назад

      @@LordOfLight no, I was agreeing with you. Maybe I should have been more clear.

  • @JonDingle
    @JonDingle Год назад +33

    Sewell should face criminal charges as soon as possible. Clearly a "nasty chap"!

    • @FissionChips
      @FissionChips Год назад +5

      Sewell has absolutely no redeeming characteristics whatsoever. I wonder if his family watched him lying through his back teeth and now garner the same opinion of him?

  • @patrickj4747
    @patrickj4747 Год назад +29

    Everyone at the Post Office and Fujitsu has the same answer to everything - I don't know nothin' 'bout nothin'.

  • @TR4zest
    @TR4zest Год назад +30

    I think Sewell has clearly demonstrated what actually is a nasty chap.

  • @nalodailec
    @nalodailec Год назад +109

    Has anybody seen Peter Sewell's job description? Was Peter Sewell paid for working for Fujitsu? He cannot have been paid for his memory bank, or is he claiming that it is only recently that his mind became a total blank about everything. So what was he being paid for? And for how long was Fujitsu paying him. Why would anyone believe a word this individual uttered? He should just crawl back under the stone he grubbed his way out from.

    • @GafftheHorse
      @GafftheHorse Год назад +7

      Being paid to be this forgetful. Being this unable to answer questions during an enquiry or legal cross examination is probably an in demand skill of company executives.

  • @helenb963
    @helenb963 Год назад +24

    Keeps saying ‘it’s a long time ago’. Yeah time that you have been free living your life and they haven’t.

  • @junewhitney4110
    @junewhitney4110 Год назад +9

    As soon as they are asked a question they don't like, they say they don't remember..

  • @DeceptiveRealities
    @DeceptiveRealities Год назад +32

    The usual - as we saw last week. 1. Shift blame to colleagues. 2. Never give a heartfelt apology. 3. Remember perfectly well one thing (a bland PowerPoint presentation" but not other things (An email with ... and ... in it - indicating something that could not be written). 4. Use "I was just following orders from higher up" whenever possible. These people took an oath - I presume they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law once this is over.

  • @johnvanstone5336
    @johnvanstone5336 Год назад +19

    He denies everything, can’t remember, no idea why he wrote it, what a load of blarney !

  • @splatten8597
    @splatten8597 Год назад +12

    What a nice person, didn’t know why he wrote that!

  • @btkjay9749
    @btkjay9749 Год назад +29

    Disgusting. Just disgusting.

  • @michaelparker5510
    @michaelparker5510 Год назад +19

    These people really should be behind bars

  • @bob23301
    @bob23301 Год назад +22

    Criminals always seem to have no memory of what they did.

  • @Kevin-mx1vi
    @Kevin-mx1vi Год назад +67

    I understand that abusers usually blame their victims. I guess we now know what this man is ?

    • @neil1997
      @neil1997 Год назад +1

      Don't you feel sorry for his wife... (Or maybe husband 😅)

  • @defendermodsandtravels
    @defendermodsandtravels Год назад +38

    He apologised to the enquiry for writing that disgusting email about an innocent victim whom he helped to ruin. So that's all right then.

    • @neil1997
      @neil1997 Год назад +11

      I'm sorry I wrote it. Translation: I should have not written it down, I should have said it in person.

    • @jamjarthecat4205
      @jamjarthecat4205 7 месяцев назад

      The least heart-felt apology too.

    • @franc9111
      @franc9111 7 месяцев назад

      @@neil1997 'I'm sorry that I let myself get caught so stupidly, I'm feeling my age'.

  • @delcat8168
    @delcat8168 Год назад +8

    He can't believe he wrote that... and yet is 'certain' he never wrote anything similar before or since.
    I love the way she left nice long pauses to make him sweat...🙂

  • @chichicjw
    @chichicjw Год назад +18

    To set an example, all those behind this appalling injustice and deception of a seriously flawed system, including the Post Office CEO and operation manager should all be serving time. Any normal folk found guilty of serious fraud would be jailed. This has ruined lives and taken even more. Shame on all those involved.

  • @jossym
    @jossym 10 месяцев назад +2

    £50 says that when the public enquiry is over and they eventually start naming those who will be taken to court, this guy is conveniently 'too ill' to stand trial.

  • @davidcousins3508
    @davidcousins3508 Год назад +35

    We get to see the face of ‘the official narrative’..I think the takeaway is to never be afraid to question what we are told.

  • @kamcg1049
    @kamcg1049 Год назад +36

    It would be useful to see the HR records and performance reviews of people from Fujitsu and Post Office and see whether their managers thought this was the type of behavior the organisations encouraged and rewarded. Maybe we don't have a few bad apples but rotten orchards?

    • @brianlopez8855
      @brianlopez8855 Год назад +8

      They would have been shredded by now to "reduce storage costs"

    • @GafftheHorse
      @GafftheHorse Год назад +3

      If this guy is senior management you won't find the kind of yearly performance review the vast majority of employees have to endure. At most there might be a record of his pay increase and bonus each year.

    • @FissionChips
      @FissionChips Год назад

      @@GafftheHorse Even Senior Managers have annual performance reviews undertaken by the Grade above the Senior Manager.

    • @diane4488
      @diane4488 Год назад +3

      This man is disgusting.
      In all the investigations I've watched, so far, it seems all the staff were very poorly trained, didn't understand the law, shirked their responsibilities, were, and still are, prepared to tow the party line, had very low morals, and no respect for honesty and truth.
      Also no conscience regarding the pain and suffering they were personally causing.
      That includes Management, Investigation Officers, and Lawyers.
      I suspect the Post Office would have terminated employment for any staff who asked questions, or suggested that they were doing things wrong.
      Those up the top seem deliberately corrupt, constantly give answers that are unbelievable, and obscure the truth!
      Not only has it been a highly corrupt business, for at least the last two decades, but clearly it continues to be.
      Their practices are evil.

  • @trucker287
    @trucker287 Год назад +51

    Peter Sewell's body language = guilty, should be in jail.

  • @Mil-w6d
    @Mil-w6d 10 месяцев назад +2

    I like the way the questioner is persistent with her questions and the accusatory tone she uses

  • @leswatson
    @leswatson Год назад +19

    As a shareholder of a company who is approached by this man for a senior position, devoid of truth and ethics as he clearly is, would you support his appointment?
    Time for Fujitsu shareholders to stand up.

  • @craigebblewhite2724
    @craigebblewhite2724 Год назад +16

    My parents were Sub Postmasters in a small village in the NE. They were meticulous with their accounts, nightly, weekly and monthly. All handballed into various ledgers, red, blue and black Bic Biro pens !!! Non PO supplied by the way. I can remember it like yesterday 40 years on. I am so glad that they had retired before this less than half cocked Horizon horseshit was imposed upon them - it would have killed them to be implicated in this as they were never short in 30 years. They had pride in their work and a good reputation in the small community that they provided the PO service for. Not so fortunate for another local sub Postmaster who got wrapped right around the axle with the Horizon system.

    • @franc9111
      @franc9111 7 месяцев назад

      Absolutely right.

  • @KeithChegwin24
    @KeithChegwin24 Год назад +53

    Nothing but prison for everyone at Fujitsu and the Post Office will be good enough. The £1billion set aside by the government to cover compensation won't even touch the sides...Fujitsu need to stump up the same amount and the Post Office needs to be closed down

    • @fc4660
      @fc4660 8 месяцев назад +2

      Exactly and it’s taxpayers money

  • @michaelkavanagh5947
    @michaelkavanagh5947 10 месяцев назад +3

    This man needs jail. We need to prosecute people! No we demand this man is sent to jail. The people want justice!

  • @yellowtommytanker
    @yellowtommytanker Год назад +11

    His apology is FAR too little, FAR to late, a horrible little man and hopefully another who will get the justice he richly deserves....

    • @neil1997
      @neil1997 Год назад +1

      What apology? I only heard him say sorry for writing something down that if he had said in person would not be in evidence.

  • @elkiton
    @elkiton Год назад +28

    This supports the belief that the sub postmasters were treated as "grubby little people working for a living" by both the PO, and it seems to have spread, to the Fujitsu managers too..... I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.... Digging their own graves..

  • @edwardalexander9486
    @edwardalexander9486 Год назад +19

    Tough love from the questioner - all those tasked with getting to the truth have been articulate and bright - exactly what the GPO and that Venables person have not been.

  • @russjohnston3307
    @russjohnston3307 Год назад +8

    What an embarrassment this man is. He is sitting there soiling himself no remorse no regrets no apologies getting rinsed for being a poor excuse for a man. Unfortunately this happens in many businesses today they hope nobody will ever know. These individuals should go to jail they are inhuman.

  • @David-sb7vg
    @David-sb7vg Год назад +10

    There can be no further acceptance of these lies and claims of amnesia. Justice MUST prevail.

  • @peteryoung9781
    @peteryoung9781 Год назад +11

    "I don't know why I wrote it" should never be accepted as an answer to any question in an enquiry into the ruination of people's lives. Shame on the Government for trying to hide behind this enquiry.

  • @wmpaz1393
    @wmpaz1393 Год назад +9

    Absolutely appalling. I can’t wait to see these people behind bars themselves.

  • @peterbennett5910
    @peterbennett5910 Год назад +21

    He remembers what he did not do but can't remember what he did do. Beyond reasonable doubt Sewell is continuing to miss lead the enquiry. This is evidence of perverting the course of justice

    • @neil1997
      @neil1997 Год назад

      Get a jury of 12 in that inquiry room stat!

  • @LysanderLH
    @LysanderLH Год назад +16

    Power corrupts and always leads to this tyrrany. Nobody oversaw or watched senior managers and board members and this is what you get when people in positions of authority are not watched openly.

    • @rolandnelson6722
      @rolandnelson6722 9 месяцев назад

      Power doesn’t corrupt.
      It reveals.

    • @LysanderLH
      @LysanderLH 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@rolandnelson6722 In some cases it does both and sometimes neither. Johnson wasn’t born a moron, he was made into one.

    • @rolandnelson6722
      @rolandnelson6722 9 месяцев назад

      @@LysanderLH Power can’t fail to reveal.

  • @barrysmith4999
    @barrysmith4999 Год назад +9

    The term 'lying through your back teeth' comes to mind!

  • @PADR
    @PADR 10 месяцев назад +2

    Appalling bunch of corporates. They should be held accountable with jail time seeing as the innocent postmasters had to serve some.

  • @tomfreemanorourke1519
    @tomfreemanorourke1519 Год назад +7

    Never underestimate the power of denial especially when used by professional liars.

  • @adrianwhyatt594
    @adrianwhyatt594 10 месяцев назад +1

    Worst type of lying bullying manager. But will he be held to account, let alone do time?

  • @Robinbamv
    @Robinbamv Год назад +8

    Another one of many who should find themselves before a criminal court

  • @brendanosullivan1880
    @brendanosullivan1880 10 месяцев назад +2

    Arrest him. Convict him. Bankrupt him.

  • @zetectic7968
    @zetectic7968 Год назад +12

    It doesn't make what is true or false, right or wrong, just protect the brand & company by whatever means necessary. What immorality lies at the heart of Fujitsu.

  • @pauladealmeida9791
    @pauladealmeida9791 10 месяцев назад +1

    This is awful. Excellent cross-examination by the lawyer.

  • @anitarogers2877
    @anitarogers2877 Год назад +9

    How bizarre using the word and instructing someone to use 'integrity.' They clearly have no concept of what that means. They certainly never demonstrated using any whatsoever.

    • @ThePeage
      @ThePeage Год назад +1

      I thought the questioner's pause after reading the word "integrity" was very significant. It is a word that few people understand and even fewer exhibit.

  • @richardcole9558
    @richardcole9558 10 месяцев назад +1

    He wrote that because he never expected to be sitting there explaining his actions ..

  • @sorbets1
    @sorbets1 Год назад +11

    Surely there are grounds for prosecuting these people for perverting the course of justice!?!?

  • @sjbechet1111
    @sjbechet1111 10 месяцев назад +1

    Should face the same sanction as the victims of their incompetence and malevolence.

  • @mothermary312
    @mothermary312 Год назад +10

    Fujitsu need to be responsible for all of the compensation that should be forthcoming to these poor postmasters.
    No one can give back a persons life or time spent in Jail. In fact, all of the people who covered up this miscarriage of justice should be sent to prison. Let them see what their lies cause others to suffer.

  • @firefly01
    @firefly01 10 месяцев назад +2

    Brilliant interrogator! She cuts to the wire.

  • @peterbennett5910
    @peterbennett5910 Год назад +9

    Sewell - only remembers what he wants to remember. Disgusting behaviour. Police do your thing. Its in the public interest to charge him for Perverting the course of justice

  • @clivefinlay3901
    @clivefinlay3901 Год назад +8

    Never underestimate the power of denial !!

  • @sepppileggi9206
    @sepppileggi9206 Год назад +3

    Looking forward to the list of names the judge recommends for prosecution or police investigation. Criminal behaviour shouldn't go unpunished.

  • @mmaximk
    @mmaximk 10 месяцев назад +1

    I expect this man felt entirely on top of his brief when he was writing that email and cashing his fat paychecks.
    I hope he and his entire management team serve heavy custodial sentences for their crimes.

  • @rb1062
    @rb1062 Год назад +3

    His family and friends must be so proud of his sympathetic, decent style of 'management'. He does seem to be very embarrassed and ashamed of himself.

  • @daviestewart1725
    @daviestewart1725 10 месяцев назад +1

    What a contemptible bunch of people. Glad they are being outed and hope they are all prosecuted.

  • @gogee8510
    @gogee8510 Год назад +11

    Disgusting people. People need to go to jail.

  • @PETERKILROY-g1b
    @PETERKILROY-g1b Год назад +12

    When the lawyer was questioning Peter Sewell, Mr Sewell had instant and absolute recall of what he says he didn't do, but no recall of what he did do. In an e-mail he also referred to Lee Castleton as a nasty man. Libel is a written statement that is unjustly unfavourable. The law says that someone has 12 months after the publication of a libellous statement to start court proceedings. Depending on your definition of the publication date, this e-mail has probably only seen the light of day as the result of this enquiry. Just an observation

  • @jaydubzonward
    @jaydubzonward Год назад +4

    they're all sticking up for each other hoping saying the bare minimum and admitting to nothing will get them away with it.

  • @LeahyPhoto
    @LeahyPhoto Год назад +2

    He can’t believe he wrote an email, but he can believe that he has never said similar, and we have his word for that.

  • @_Ben4810
    @_Ben4810 Год назад +30

    Yet again, the undercurrent of unpleasantness with these people towards the sub-postmasters is appalling...A culture of unprofessionalism, nastiness, spitefulness & ''us & them'' is so prevalent...This cowardly guy doesn't even have the cahonies to own & fully explain his own words he once wrote....smdh...

    • @neil1997
      @neil1997 Год назад

      And don't mention the most obvious one... Begins with R

    • @franc9111
      @franc9111 7 месяцев назад

      That is the class mentality that he and his ilk are locked into. Obviously there's no possible excuse for it, he only regrets being found out and having to face questions from somebody he can't dismiss as an inferior.

  • @garyhope3731
    @garyhope3731 Год назад +10

    Always apologetic, when caught, these people need to go to prison and have a taste to what they have dished out to these postmasters, also , pensions lost.

  • @Zaphods-Third-Arm
    @Zaphods-Third-Arm Год назад +4

    I bet all these people never thought that this would ever come back to bite them on their arses. Lives ruined, even suicides. What an utter disgrace.

  • @splintercast8092
    @splintercast8092 Год назад +11

    He looks and sounds like a frightened little 8 year old who is on the verge of wetting his pants.

  • @ivanskavinskiskavar6242
    @ivanskavinskiskavar6242 Год назад +5

    As in the USA, it now seems that these people believe they can magically render themselves unaccountable and thereby untouchable, simply by feining limited memory loss.

  • @spartacusforlife1508
    @spartacusforlife1508 10 месяцев назад +2

    Just how many board members sat on multiple boards of other companies picking up a wage? How can they practice appropriate

  • @SlapCabbage08
    @SlapCabbage08 10 месяцев назад +3

    These people need jail they have no genuine shame. He will say anything or do anything to get the job done.

  • @a120068020
    @a120068020 Год назад +6

    The whole thing is a huge corporate cover up where Fujitsu and Post Office would say anything to protect their reputation and individuals would say or do anything to protect their jobs and pensions. They watched sub-postmaster after sub-postmaster be convicted when they knew they hadn't committed a crime. Really low stuff. Does anyone know why there never seems to be mention of main post office (postmasters) being convicted, only sub-postmasters? Was this because of different contracts, issues caused by remote connectivity differences, or was there something in place to make all this happen to close small post offices?

  • @Liberté-bell
    @Liberté-bell Год назад +3

    Shame on him! Shame on them all! Hold them ALL accountable!

  • @Steve14ps
    @Steve14ps Год назад +3

    "I don't Know" or "I can't remember" are euphemisms for 'I am guilty of the charges, but I am not man enough to own up to them'.

  • @thordrewsean
    @thordrewsean Год назад +3

    imgine he was an everyday man from the street, that smirk would be wiped off his face and held in contempt for lying.