Until Sir Peter's judgment came through, the Post Office refused to accept that, over an 18 year period, it had done anything wrong. By Andy Furey. After the third meeting, Simon Clarke contacted the Post Office, stating: Mr Clarke also indicated he had been told that handwritten minutes were no longer to be typed and should be forwarded to the Post Office's Head of Security. Simon Clarke worked as counsel for Cartwright King (CK), a firm of solicitors contracted to the Post Office, engaged in prosecuting Subpostmasters on their behalf. All; Available now (12) Next on (11) Parts 6-10. The moral rights or wrongs of this are a slightly different issue as to whether Horizon data was essential to his prosecution. At the time, the defence were served with a statement from Fujitsu (which operates the Horizon system on behalf of the Post Office) saying that at all material times, Horizon was working correctly. It is also true to say the Post Office has only admitted its failings after spending many millions of tax-payers’ money in unsuccessfully attempting to defend itself. I am currently engaged in a second round of crowdfunding to cover the Court of … Stanley Fell was a Subpostmaster at Newton Bergoland Post Office. She had, and she said: Seema Misra, sent to prison in 2010 (and another Panorama alumnus), took a similar view: She wants people at the Post Office held accountable: The hearing was due to last four days, but I think there is already an acknowledgement that this will tip over into Friday. Wendy Cousins ran a tiny, but busy branch in Hertford Heath, a few miles south of Hertford in... correct, Hertfordshire. He referred to a schedule of evidence put together by a Post Office investigator used to prosecute Ms Cousin: Ms Johnson pointed out that Wendy Cousins had not made any calls to the helpline about any alleged phantom transactions or dodgy reconciliations. Stanley Fell, now aged 69, ran the Newton Bergoland village Post Office from 1976 to his eventual suspension in 2006. Many of them came out in evidence and cross-examination during the first trial. The Post Office considered Horizon a high operational risk in an internal review, a trial focused on alleged fallibilities in the system used in thousands of Post Office branches has heard. This crowdfunded website covers the Post Office Horizon scandal which led to around 800 prosecutions over a 20 year period. She had stumbled across an item I wrote called "The ballad of Paula Vennells", and was interested in finding out more.Paula Vennells was at the time the CEO of the Post Office and had recently announced she was going to be taking up a position as chair of Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust. The money was then (allegedly without any proper audit) moved onto the balance sheet where it was used to boost the Post Office's profits. 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