#PostOfficeScandal #CAPTURE #StateSponsoredCrimes #HumanRights THE POST OFFICE'S "CHANGE IN CULTURE" — NOW WITH 40-PAGE COURT SUBMISSIONS Blair McDougall MP, Post Office Minister, would like you all to know there has been a "change in culture" at the Post Office. The evidence? The Post Office has filed a forty-page legal submission opposing the appeal of Patricia Owen, convicted of theft in 1998 on Capture software the Post Office now concedes was faulty. Mrs Owen died in 2003. She is therefore unable to attend the hearing at which the Post Office will explain why her trial was fair. Some highlights of the new culture: — £3.2m paid across a scheme with 200+ applicants. Twenty-four final payments. The arithmetic is left as an exercise for the reader. — Convicted sub-postmasters get nothing until their convictions are overturned. Their convictions cannot be overturned because the Post Office is opposing the Appeals. The Post Office of course is the body that prosecuted them in the first place. This is described as "due process." The Minister "perfectly understands the sense of frustration" but "cannot comment on individual cases." He can, however, comment on the abstract importance of "full facts and all the information laid out" — a sentiment the Post Office has spent twenty-five years experimentally rejecting. Post Office Chair Nigel Railton, asked about mass exoneration, says he supports it. Post Office lawyers, asked to stop fighting the Appeals, file another forty pages. One of these positions is the Post Office's actual position. Readers may guess which. The CCRC is sitting on 29 Capture cases. The first wrongful Horizon conviction took sixteen years to overturn through the courts. Parliament eventually had to legislate away the rest. Minister McDougall declined to rule out doing the same for Capture. He also declined to do it. We are told we are entering "the period where the scandal begins to conclude." On current trajectory, conclusion will arrive shortly after the heat death of the universe, at which point the Post Office will issue a brief statement noting that all parties received a fair trial. inews.co.uk/news/post-offi… @CastletonLee @Karlfl @rbrooks45 @Janetsk20073533 @VarchasPatel @PostOffice @liambyrne @CommonsBTC @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords
