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The ITV programme said that the government had appointed an investigator into the Capture system (that pre-dated Horizon), and that a report was due soon.

I'm just watching this now. Incredibly, it seems that there was a system before Horizon, called Capture, and sub postmasters were prosecuted for errors in this system as well....

Indeed. The authorities will be crawling all over her answers, but as a layman, I am finding it difficult to pinpoint anywhere where she incriminated herself. Perhaps this wasn't the right time or vehicle to do this.

There needs to be blood-letting. Even if she did apologise 6 times, and cried 4 times.

One commentator said there wasn't a defining 'gotcha' moment. But for her to claim that from 2007 to 2013, she didn't know that the Post Office carried out its own prosecutions with 100 dedicated staff, and that there were no bugs in Horizon, is beyond absurd. If by some divine miracle of...

I've just watched that part. Marvelous. A proper lightbulb moment at the end, when the judge asked her 'why?' (did that briefing document contain such an obvious - and completely intentional - contradiction?) The fact that it took her by surprise, says it all.

Edit: I wrote this BEFORE I read @Westdene Seagull above.

My money's on Jarnail Singh. More slippery than a pocketful of eels.

That sounds entirely believable. Transactions not being rolled back correctly in the event of a failure. From memory, in the 90s and 2000s, hierarchical databases like IMS (not the same solution as the Fujitsu/Horizon system), had a proprietary function action called checkpoint/restart and...

I know m20gull has pointed this out above, but when you wonder whether all this would have happened had the Post Office not been privatised, the answer is 'yes it would' because it has happened while the Post Office has not been privatised ! However, if you are wondering whether it would have...

The Post Office reputation is irreparably damaged. It is now a toxic combination of public sector incompetence, malevolence and whopping bonuses funded by taxpayers. I can see a multi million pound rebranding exercise coming. Welcome to Rapido. A new, fresh network of hubs - sustainable...

Thanks for posting this link. It's far from a waste of time. It's a 15 minute read, and if anyone hasn't read it already, I thoroughly recommend it. It's quite, quite extraordinary. Within it, there is a link to a video of the two days that Mr. Singh was being questioned for ten hours...