Comments by "Alice Merray" (@alicemerray) on "The Horizon Post Office Scandal Plus Lionel Rishi | Pod Save the UK" video.

  1. There definitely need to be prosecutions in the PO case. The PO and Fujitsu LIED at least twice (but repeatedly) when they said no one else had access to the system (utter nonsense to anyone who has the slightest familiarity with computer systems - how do you do updates if you don't have access?) and when they told the subpostmasters over and over again "you're the only one who is having problems".
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  2. One of the things the newspapers were doing throughout the Post Office Scandal was printing headlines about 'fraudsters stealing from pensioners' and the like, pandering to a certain part of their readership that loves to hear of wrongdoers getting banged up. Hardly any of them seem to have been paying any attention to any defences the postmasters put up - I realise many were intimidated into pleading guilty to try to avoid custodial sentences - and they mostly showed a real failure of proper journalistic curiosity.
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