Former Post Office boss cornered over knowledge of Horizon software defects in Inquiry

The Post Office Alzheimer's cluster expands.

They justify their high salaries by saying they are accountable and the buck stops with them. But when faced with that they lie and say they didn’t know. Disgusting

DON'T DROP THIS ISSUE JOE! We NEED this in the spotlight. Absolutely no way we can let these crooks get away with the evil they've done.

I’m so sorry that the highly paid executives of PO couldn’t remember any accounts or instances of concern about the failings of the Horizon system. It was, after all, many years ago. They were, at least, highly paid. Bless them. In the meantime the hundreds if not thousands of PO victims and families were ravaged by protracted and unremitting injustice were left to rot. WTF!!!

Extraordinary. It goes way beyond Vennels. She is an easy target partly because of her bizarre delusion that she was a "good" person and a fit subject for ordination in the Anglican Church. Too, too bizarre. Too, too delusional. But it goes far beyond her. I am sickened by the corporate "bullshit bingo" language being trotted out by one after another of the senior executives in this inquiry. It is nauseating.

Look how slow he is at answering these question.. he’s trying to make sure he doesn’t slip up. That’s what people do when they know they’ve done wrong and don’t want to be blamed.

A reminder that David Miller wasn't just a Managing Director of Post Office - he was a core part of the Horizon project leadership team (a deputy director in 1995 and programme director in 1998 according to his recent testimony at the inquiry). He was describing Horizon as "robust and fit for purpose" (the phrase that comes back to haunt everyone) while it was being rolled out in 1999, despite Ernst and Young highlighting serious issues to him with data integrity in their auditing. When it comes to who covered it up - I expect a lot of fingers will be pointing in his direction.

He should be in jail

Another one who crosses his arms when he is faced with uncomfortable details

Complicit in the cover up. Get him locked up

So many of these Post Office managers know nothing, remember nothing, never asked any questions, never understood what they were doing or what they were responsible for. And yet, for some reason, they see nothing wrong with having drawn huge salaries for this utter level of collective incompetence.

They remember things in their defence, but forgets things in their guilt!!!

Appalling bunch of people - and not just at executive level - but both at POL and at Fujitsu, in legal and investigative departments, at the "Help" desk... and in government and the civil service! Watching the inquiry and knowing of this for years having read Computer Weekly and Private Eye, I am increasingly astounded at how the religious mantra of "Horizon Good, postmasters Bad!" was so pervasive. I am also astounded at just how incurious these people were. According to POL, there was a huge number of criminals operating post offices, criminals who had invested their own monies, linked the PO to their own businesses (both via contracts and via Horizon terminals), lived over the shop - yet they all had their fingers in the till! But no one thought to ask how this anomaly came about. They all just repeated the mantra.

"I don't recall." We should take this to mean an admission of guilt.

So he had an emergency meeting about doubts over an "expert" witness which resulted in him signing off £180,000 without thinking may be he should ask further questions or a the very least read the supporting documentatio. Unbelievable

So, the Postmasters, were prosecuted, and some sent to prison, for not doing their " job" properly. Yet, although these Executives and Managers, couldn't or didn't do their " job" properly, they still got highly paid. It beggers belief.

Obviously been instructed all of them, to follow the Amnesia path, get them in front of the criminal courts ..

When I installed the ovens at Auschwitz I had no idea what they were going to be used for. Not me guv.

This person signed a cheque for some £180k on the basis that he was asked to - but did not ask any questions and did not read any of underlying documents. Huh! Isn't that what negligence looks like? It is not as if £180k was petty cash. On any view it was a material sum. It was probably as much or nearly as much as his annual salary. Yet he just signed without further enquiry. We are to believe that? Sorry! Not credible.

Amnesia is most prevalent attribute to all PO bosses