> Astonishingly, more than 700 postmasters were prosecuted without any executive, manager, or statistician recognizing this glaring anomaly.
They were fully aware of the problems and deliberately not acknowledging them.
e.g. the ongoing inquiry has just been shown a document showing the Post Office indicated that it would accept a guilty plea on a less serious charge provided the defendant agreed to accept that there was “nothing wrong with Horizon”.
And to make sure the incentives were properly perverse, Post Office executives were paid bonuses for each successful conviction.
As far as I am concerned, justice will not have been done until all of their bonuses are clawed back, and at least one of the execs has been smeared on tracks by the tube.
They were fully aware of the problems and deliberately not acknowledging them.
e.g. the ongoing inquiry has just been shown a document showing the Post Office indicated that it would accept a guilty plea on a less serious charge provided the defendant agreed to accept that there was “nothing wrong with Horizon”.