Embattled Post Office chief executive Nick Read is leaving the troubled organisation in March 2025. He will be replaced on an interim basis by chief operating officer Neil Brocklehurst. Victims of the Post Office scandal have consistently called for Read’s departure following years of delays in paying compensation and revelations this year that he threatened…
A new redress scheme for victims of the Post Office scandal that was launched by the Labour government in July has completed its first £600,000 payment to a former subpostmaster – just over one month after her application was submitted. The payment is significant because the new plan, the Horizon Convictions Redress Scheme, is run…
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The statutory public inquiry into the Post Office scandal went relatively unnoticed for almost two years, but in that time, those au fait with the case have been shocked on an almost daily basis. The airing of ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office drama and accompanying documentary in January 2024, eventually put the scandal…
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The Post Office has apologised once again to subpostmasters after it was confirmed that a text message intended to warn branch managers of a problem preventing access to the Horizon IT system was never sent. As reported by Computer Weekly earlier this week, about 3,000 Post Office branch counters were unable do business when they…
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A former Post Office investigator who deleted information from an expert IT witness statement during the wrongful prosecution of a subpostmaster faces being investigated by his current employer, the Metropolitan Police, as part of its Post Office scandal probe. Last week, the Post Office scandal public inquiry was shown evidence for the second time that …
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The IT expert at the centre of the Post Office Horizon scandal has resigned as a member of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, after he was informed the professional association could investigate his part in the widest miscarriage of justice in history. Gareth Jenkins, who was chief architect at Fujitsu and acted as an…
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A former Fujitsu IT expert’s ignorance of the rules that expert witnesses to courts must adhere to meant subpostmasters were wrongly convicted of financial crimes and jailed, the Post Office public inquiry has heard. Gareth Jenkins began acting as an expert IT witness to courts for the Post Office in the early 2000s, when the…
A former Fujitsu engineer who gave evidence for the Post Office during trials of subpostmasters has made an “extraordinary” claim during questioning at the Post Office scandal public inquiry. Gareth Jenkins told the public inquiry that a reference to “the computer” in his previous witness statements to courts was widely misunderstood to be referring to…
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A barrister who represented the Post Office during its 2018 High Court battle has said lawyers representing subpostmaster claimants would have “had a field day in court” if a tainted Fujitsu expert witness had been called to give evidence. During the latest phase of the Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry, Anthony de Garr Robinson…
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Taxpayers are facing a £1bn bill for the Post Office to replace its controversial Horizon IT system, Computer Weekly has learned – but government experts sent in to assess the funding request have reported that the critical project is currently unachievable. The plan to develop a replacement for Horizon and remove its supplier, Fujitsu, is…
