Self-serving Post Office bosses deserve nothing short of prison | Post Office Horizon scandal

So now we all know – the Put up Workplace Horizon scandal has not been about senior administration’s incompetence and their struggles to recognise that an costly software program programme won’t have been all that it was cracked as much as be. It has been a elementary illustration of man’s inhumanity to man, or, extra exactly, it has proven simply how self-serving and missing in regard for workers senior managers have been and proceed to be.Marina Hyde (Harmless subpostmasters went to jail, however now it’s clear: the Put up Workplace boss class belong there as a substitute, 8 July) chilled my blood to the bone in describing how a postmistress made 256 calls to the helpdesk, however was nonetheless prosecuted and incarcerated, and missed her daughter’s 18th birthday whereas in jail. She then needed to endure her daughter’s demise a 12 months later. Who on earth was so uninterested within the cause for therefore many calls, was so callous that they sat by whereas the postmistress was prosecuted?Hyde says the Put up Workplace bosses ought to go to jail. This one instance of their failure to query why so many staff have been experiencing severe Horizon issues, their callous indifference, the industrial-scale cover-up, to not point out their collective amnesia of occasions through the inquiry, results in just one conclusion – these bosses should be prosecuted and incarcerated.John RobinsonLichfield Commentary on the Horizon scandal has centered on the shortcomings of Fujitsu and of the Put up Workplace. I counsel the British judiciary should additionally take some accountability. One thing like 1,000 folks have been introduced earlier than the courts, charged with stealing enormous sums of cash. There was no direct proof in opposition to them. Nobody may present the place the cash had gone; there was no signal of the accused folks creating an costly life-style – most couldn’t even afford attorneys to defend them. The one proof got here from a software program system that would not be cross-examined.Why did the judges permit these instances to proceed? They need to, or ought to, have recognized concerning the tons of of virtually equivalent instances being prosecuted throughout the nation. What has turn into of the precept of being judged responsible past affordable doubt?Alan RobinsonGriffydam, Leicestershire This debacle has ruined so many lives and the perpetrators have but to face any significant sanctions past public ignominy. Do we actually have to attend for completion of the general public inquiry earlier than prison proceedings will be began? The federal government must be ashamed at dragging its toes and additional punishing the victims with the snail’s tempo of agreeing compensation. David FeltonWistaston, Cheshire Wasn’t there at the least one individual within the Put up Workplace hierarchy who thought, “Cling on a minute, aren’t there a disproportionate variety of folks abruptly apparently stealing?” Or have been all of them so in thrall to new expertise, and being courted by Fujitsu, that widespread sense flew out the window?Terry StoneSouthend-on-Sea, Essex Marina Hyde’s evaluate of the scandal was, once more, upsetting. A 12 months or so in the past, I felt it essential to e mail Fujitsu’s CEO, Takahito Tokita. I mentioned his firm ought to present rapid and substantial compensation as a matter of honour, however primarily as a result of it was at fault. I’m nonetheless awaiting a reply. Paul GarrodSouthsea, Hampshire What we didn’t study from the inquiry report – the place did the cash go (Put up Workplace Horizon IT scandal: 5 issues we discovered from the report, 8 July)?Sarah Walker and Barrie de LaraNorwich Have an opinion on something you’ve learn within the Guardian as we speak? Please e mail us your letter and it will likely be thought of for publication in our letters part.