Post Office Horizon IT scandal

Chez Guevara — Dining in style at the Disaster Café™ →Go uptown One of the poor subpostmasters, yesterday. Oh hold on, no, that’s Paula Vennells! Extract from the JC’s financial disasters roll of honour Scandal Date Where Loss Reason Firings Jail-Time? Post Office Horizon IT scandal 1999-2015 UK Unjustified prosecution and conviction of hundreds of subpostmasters across the UK. Conviction, imprisonment, suicide and bankruptcy of hundreds of perfectly innocent and quite nice people. Unaccountability, groupthink, astonishing collective amnesia, widespread incompetence, stupidity. Loss of public honours (CBE). No firings yet: many candidates for defenestration jumped before they could be fired. Excoriating public humiliation in front of public enquiry. Increasingly likely some criminal prosecutions may follow. Office Horizon&action=edit edit template Index: Click ᐅ to expand: Disaster Café Tell me more Sign up for our newsletter — or just get in touch: for ½ a weekly 🍺 you get to consult JC. Ask about it here.

See also

• Roll of honour
• The Unaccountability Machine