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The claim from fujitsu that the PO amended witness statements from the tech co to remove references to known bugs is startling. It doesnt absolve fujitsu but it pins more blame on PO

The current public inquiry is making great progress on identifying people at all levels who either didnt ask, ignored or disnt understand what they were told and then negligently or knowingly gave evidence or supported a robust defence approach. There are in-house legal teams of post office...

I appreciate that, however (and i speak from some experience as having been involved in prosecutions for a financial company) if a statement provided which is material to the case and later proves to be false then the conviction will likely be seen as unsafe. A retrial can be sought but the...

So if their conviction relied on any witness statement from fujitsu or the post office re the veracity of the computer system then their conviction will be unsafe. That is the law. The current public inquiry has had both fujitsu and the post office obfuscating with equivocal statements, lost...

Just to be clear, to be justified they will need to be beyond reasonable doubt. You will never get that now the system is known to be so fatally flawed.

Ultimately there are some people who made money out of this and I doubt its sub postmasters en masse. It will be the post office who had post masters pay back money they didn't take. It will be executives who got paid bonuses. It will be legal firms who overlooked issues to provide 'evidence...

You make a great point. Hillsborough also took a tv dramatisation to raise the public awareness of the wrongdoing and to light fires under people in power. (I am not being political as hillsborough same as this has politicians of all hues with some element of responsibility) Television when...