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18-09-2023, 06:30 PM | #1 | |||
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£600,000 each
Some have sadly passed away. [The government has announced a new fixed sum payment for victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal in an effort to provide quicker compensation. An award of £600,000 is on offer to the postmasters who have had their convictions overturned after faulty Horizon software made it appear they were stealing, as money looked to be missing. Anyone who has proven they were falsely imprisoned as part of the scandal can take the payment instead of going through the full assessment of their loss. The only requirement is for the victim to prove they had their conviction overturned.] https://news.sky.com/story/post-offi...ation-12964451 |
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18-09-2023, 06:35 PM | #2 | |||
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Wish it was me.
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18-09-2023, 07:25 PM | #3 | |||
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Imagine what they went through…many of them lost their homes…imagine the impact that had on their lives for all those years…
They deserve it…if not more. |
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18-09-2023, 08:43 PM | #4 | |||
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This Witch doesn't burn
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Listened to one lady who spent time in prison, she is not accepting it, thinks it is an insult and it is
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18-09-2023, 08:48 PM | #5 | |||
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Jessica Meuse was robbed.
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I say double the price.
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18-09-2023, 09:38 PM | #6 | |||
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Why didn’t somebody realise there was an issue when they thought they’d discovered at the same time that 700 PO workers were thieving ..
The bells should have been timing after it showed 4 or 5 .. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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19-09-2023, 09:44 AM | #7 | ||
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Yes and they carried on prosecuting regardless of the mounting evidence that something was very wrong . It should have been those responsible for godawful mess went to jail, they are getting way scot free .The compensation on offer is a joke and insults all those postmasters/mistresses.
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19-09-2023, 12:44 PM | #8 | |||
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Surely there’s been an investigation as to who or what was responsible ? It’s gonna cost us taxpayers around 420 million or practically half a BILLION ! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Last edited by Zizu; 19-09-2023 at 12:48 PM. |
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19-09-2023, 01:15 PM | #9 | |||
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05-01-2024, 09:03 PM | #10 | |||
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All hail the Moyesiah
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Has anyone seen the ITV drama on this? Best thing I've seen in ages
Made me so angry though at what the Post Office put people through and the lengths they went to covering it up. Still never been any proper accountability. Alan Bates and the others are amazing people to have fought it for so long against so much resistance |
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05-01-2024, 10:09 PM | #11 | |||
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Some have committed suicide because of this. Not good enough. Whoever is responsible belongs in jail
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06-01-2024, 12:09 AM | #12 | |||
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08-01-2024, 03:05 AM | #13 | |||
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08-01-2024, 04:56 AM | #14 | |||
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So many lives ruined
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08-01-2024, 05:02 AM | #15 | |||
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self-oscillating
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what gets me is that people will now have died with the stigma of being convicted of a crime they didn't commit and the government really don't seem to give a crap. Any time you hear the words, it's very complicated, you know they aren't going to make a serious attempt to correct it. Loads of people will remain guilty for the rest of their lives
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08-01-2024, 05:53 AM | #16 | |||
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They owe it to those poor people to find out what went wrong and bring them to justice if needs be
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08-01-2024, 07:20 AM | #17 | |||
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Yeah no amount of compensation is going to bring back the one's who took their lives.
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08-01-2024, 07:21 AM | #18 | ||
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This is a really shocking scandal.
It's time to get all the compensation paid which isn't really compensation, it's most of what is OWED to the victims of this mess. Plus get the convictions cleared too. Stop pussyfooting around and procrastinating. I see there's rumblings now against Ed Davey too in the time of the coalition as he was the Minister related to the post office. However as far back as is necessary there surely needs to be some prosecutions of those I authority or this chaos to others lives and livelihoods and status. |
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08-01-2024, 07:59 AM | #19 | |||
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I really hate these programmes that dramatise real life events.
Like the Jimmy Savile scandal. Never watched it. Why not just a documentary? Why make the pain and suffering of others into a drama for entertainement? They did the same with the Moors Murders, Fred West. Made REAL MURDER into TV entertainment. And they've done the same with this post office scandal. I never watched that programme either. Yes it's raised the profile massively but they still made pain and suffering and suicide into entertainment. Or why else use actors. Make a documentary. I've known about this post office scandal since it was first broken years ago. I didn't need a TV drama acted out to raise the profile for me. But that's only how some people listen. They're not interested unless someone like Toby Jones is 'starring' in it. |
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08-01-2024, 09:07 AM | #20 | |||
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I feel exactly the same .. and I never watch any of them Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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08-01-2024, 09:30 AM | #21 | |||
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All hail the Moyesiah
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All the real people were closely involved in the making of the drama as well so they're not exactly being exploited |
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08-01-2024, 09:42 AM | #22 | |||
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Also, there will be a lot of people who were convicted who will now feel like the world knows their innocence. Whilst I agree in some cases dramatising murders etc is a little macabre, this has provided some vindication for the people who suffered it. THEY are all glad it was made so that tells me everything I need to know. It was followed on Thursday by interviews with the real people. The casting was brilliant too.
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08-01-2024, 09:53 AM | #23 | |||
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self-oscillating
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bringing publicity to what is government sponsored injustice, can only be a good thing
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08-01-2024, 12:01 PM | #24 | |||
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Quand il pleut, il pleut
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…I haven’t watched it yet but I will…/..I am familiar with the story, though…how is it that Paula Vennells still received a CBE for her services when this injustice was known…?…
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08-01-2024, 12:54 PM | #25 | |||
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God Save The Rave
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I remember the manager of the post office I used to do the bookie banking with getting fired amidst rumours of a theft scandal ... maybe she was wrongly accused...
Though the rumour was large amounts of cold hard cash vanishing so prolly not . |
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