Great Post Office Scandal

The Fight to Expose a Multimillion Pound IT Disaster That Put Innocent People in Jail

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Nick Wallis: Great Post Office Scandal (2021, Bath Publishing Limited)

574 pages

Langue : English

Publié 10 avril 2021 par Bath Publishing Limited.

ISBN :
978-1-9163023-8-9
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An infuriating thriller

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I actually read this some time back, but it's taken me awhile to get all this written down. What follows is a rather long review on a book about an infuriating 'computer says no' situation and a deplorable cover-up.

The Wikipedia page for the Post Office Scandal describes it as "the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history" and I think that is no exaggeration.

Despite its scale and the severity of the harm to those affected, it has almost flown under the radar. It gradually came to light between 2015 and 2021, but it just so happened those years were rather momentous years for the UK. Amidst the Brexit referendum in 2016 and associated Brexit drama till 2020, the various general elections and changes in Prime Ministers, and the pandemic and Ukraine war, I expect this complicated story about sub-postmasters, computer systems, and accounting will be known …

Sujets

  • Law, great britain