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I’d have thought it likely that some where in board and committee papers and minutes the enquiry would find evidence of exactly what PO management knew about Horizon deficiencies. It’s possible too that meetings were recorded. I assume the enquiry can demand sight of all that evidence and...

I agree. I just think in the case of the PO there seems to have been a distinct lack of accountability and an absence of independent challenge or supervision that might have been expected of a decent regulator.

And sadly you can add to your list of shame pensions misselling, endowment misselling, PPI etc etc. There’s a big problem with corporate culture ( not exclusive to UK). In fairness, financial regulators have upped their game in recent years and it’s a great pity that PO hasn’t been subject to...

Wonder why the plea bargain needed the conditional clause re Horizon? Possibly a further attempt to prevent any perception of systemic system problems - which PO would only have been worried about if they knew that to be the case.

There will be commercial contracts between PO and Fujitsu for the provision of the system and ongoing support. My guess is both parties knew there were system problems and PO chose what they thought would be the easier and cheaper route of prosecuting the soft target (postmasters) rather than...

As of a couple of hours ago the petition stood at > 900k signatures. Apparently Alan Bates has declined an OBE until Vennels is stripped of her CBE, so keep piling in.

I think that person(s) will most likely be found in the IT supplier, not the PO, but there may have been collusion between both.

A sad and classic case of a(nother) financial sector corporate thinking they an sweep things under the carpet