Yes, I agree, jail them.
A ‘wrongly convicted’ victim of the Post Office scandal has made the shocking claim that the Post Office urged him to sign a confession to stealing money or he would face losing his children.
Former sub-postmaster Senepathy Narenthiran, 68, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2008 after the Horizon IT system showed that the accounts of the Walthamstow branch, in East London, had plunged into a £275,000 hole.
Mr Narenthiran first noticed shortfalls in his accounts in the autumn of 2005. By the following year, he was suspended by the Post Office during an investigation which ended with him being jailed in 2008.
Shockingly, the father-of-two has claimed Post Office auditors were ‘dictating exactly’ what to write in a damning confession to theft, after being told he ‘would not get a chance to see [his children]’ if he refused to sign it.
Mr Narenthiran said he has been unsuccessful in getting his conviction quashed after being told by several law firms that his signed confession to stealing money, which he denies, had sealed his fate.
It seems odd to me that it has taken a television dramatisation of these events to bring them to wider attention. I knew about this years ago and seethed at the injustice and the soviet style confessions extorted from folk like Mr Narenthiran. I also seethed at the complete lack of accountability for this as well. The final insult to these people is that the person ultimately responsible was rewarded with a gong.
So yes, jail them. Jail them all. That includes the likes of Ed Davey and every single civil servant and IT professional who had their dirty fingers in this corruption and cover-up.
Couldn’t agree more. Timmy is spot on. That the compensation prevarication continues to this day makes me think of lamp-posts and piano wire. Jail is too good for these scumgbags.
I suppose the police had to wait until it came up on Twitter before it counted as a real crime.
Agreed.
It’s pure opportunism on the part of the MP’s and Police.
This nonsense with the Horizon system has dragged on for 20 years, but every step towards clearing those wrongly convicted, restoring their financial position to what it would have been and providing compensation has been stymied by the reluctance of the Post Office to admit the truth of the problem and cough up the cash.
Since the showing of “Mr Bates vs The Post Office” the public has become far more aware of a scandal that has rumbled on for decades. A scandal that politicians have previously been shy of because of their involvement in it.
So Rishi feels (since he was never responsible for the Post Office), that there is political mileage in it for him personally and given that his personal ratings are in the toilet and he’ll be out of office by Christmas 2024, whatever happens, might as well…
Similarly the police weren’t involved in the earlier prosecutions (those arising from Post Office officials), so they are acting similarly. Nice bit of PR if you can get it.
Wasn’t Andrew Bridgen involved in bringing this criminal injustice to the forefront, not as he’s likely to get any credit due to his apparent wrong think.
Talk of the devil, Andrew has just written a article about this posted on Conservative Woman.
Yes. The TCW site has an article from AB today regarding his activity in this scandal.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/my-14-year-fight-for-the-cruelly-mistreated-sub-postmasters/
As ever, on the right side of the argument. Which is why he has been shunned by the scum in parliament.
Scum is far too moderate.