In her closing statement to the Post Office inquiry this week, Paula Vennells once again added the brutal murder of irony to her list of failings. Or as the former CEO's lawyer put it: She has no desire to point the finger at others. Oh, Paula. Great to hear your pointing finger has finally been decommissioned but it's many years and many, many prison sentences too late for that.
As we bid farewell to the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry, to give it its full name, it's clear that the prime takeout should be: let that not be an end to it. Justice has yet to be served.
Pretty sensational for something created so faultlessly and beautifully out of a dauntingly unpromising dramatic premise: a faulty computer system. I wonder what the total sum of money is that the 900-plus wrongly accused post office operators were accused of stealing from the Post Office?
Two decades after he first disputed the government-owned Post Office's assessment of shortfalls in his branch's account, Alan Bates is still waiting to be paid full and proper compensation by the British state.
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