Feb 13, 2022

Post Office scandal: 'I want someone else to be charged and jailed like I was'

On Monday, 14 February, the public inquiry into the wrongful of conviction of 706 Post Office branch managers, like Mr Butoy, will begin to hear evidence. What Mr Butoy noticed, was seen not only by other Post Office branch managers, but also by those who knew the new software inside out. Jez Thompson, worked as a team leader for Fujitsu's Horizon Training Project, covering 60,000 Post Office branches over five years from the late 1990s. The Post Office says that it is "Sincerely sorry" for the impact of the Horizon scandal, adding they are "In no doubt about the human cost." "We understand the serious impact that faults with the Horizon IT system and the Post Office's management of the resulting issues have had on affected postmasters and their families - with many losing their livelihoods or being wrongly convicted for crimes they didn't commit," Postal Affairs Minister Paul Scully MP said.

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