Let's talk about an injustice in the UK....

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0	If just thinking about your bills makes you feel confused and disorientated,
0:05.0	like your head is full of Raspberry,
0:08.0	then you need Monzo.
0:10.0	Download your new favorite bank and pay bills from custom pots.
0:15.0	Money never felt like Monzo.
0:18.0	UK residents, tease and see supply.
0:21.0	Well, howdy there internet people let's bow again so today we're going to talk
0:26.8	about some news out of the UK out of the United Kingdom. Their post office has had some real problems. From 2000 to
0:40.8	2014 we're talking about significant problems.
0:45.0	People taking money, by people, I mean employees,
0:48.0	thousands of dollars.
0:50.0	There were 736 prosecutions over this theft of money. A lot of people wound up getting locked up over it. The problem is it didn't happen.
1:11.4	Software, a software called Horizon. Horizon had a bug in it. And that bug, well it made
1:19.7	it look like people had taken money, like there was money missing.
1:24.0	And even though they proclaimed their innocence,
1:29.0	they were just steamrolled.
1:31.0	They had no way to show that the bug existed. So a whole lot of them were convicted.
1:37.0	Now, their convictions are slowly being overturned.
1:41.0	The problem is, some of them are no longer with us. They've passed.
1:45.9	One of them took themselves out. People mortgage their homes to try to make up the difference, this missing money, to pay it back. their
1:55.0	to try to make up the difference, that this missing money to pay it back.
1:56.0	One person on the advice of their lawyer pleaded guilty.
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