In England, we’ve had an inquiry into the worst miscarriage of justice in British legal history.
They’ve just produced the first volume of their report.
Two points from the news report:
(1) It’s incredible to me that people are still waiting for their compensation. Or, if they’re been compensated, they’ve been short-changed by the state through an adversarial process. No respect or decency.
(2) The software company needs to be held accountable for their folly. Somebody somewhere made some seriously bad decisions and they need to be held accountable. A software bug should have been fixed years ago.
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For people outside the UK, there is a gripping TV show drama about this miscarriage called “Mr Bates vs The Post Office”
My sister watched that series and said it was excellent.
ReplyDeleteGoodness, how dreadful. I was aware of a scandal but didn't know exactly what it was about - looked it up.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link - will watch it if it permits.
I don't know if it's the worst miscarriage of justice but it's certainly an appalling one. What's especially appalling is (a) the Post Office kept on denying there was anything wrong and kept on prosecuting innocent postmasters and (b) many postmasters are still awaiting compensation or have had less compensation than they're due. As you say, the software firm should be held accountable, but no doubt they'll wriggle out of responsibility somehow.
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