Mr Bates Vs the Post Office – what Fujitsu told MPs
This Is Why
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🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The bosses of the Post Office and Fujitsu also faced the committee for the first time with the Post Office chief executive, Nick Read, admitting that it was possible that money paid by victims of the Horizon IT scandal may have been paid to Post Office executives.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson looks at what else we learned from the exchanges, as he is joined by journalist Nick Wallis, who wrote the book The Great Post Office Scandal, and Seema Misra, a former post office operator who was cleared of theft from the Post Office after being convicted and jailed in 2010.
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| 1:01.6 | It's the scandal that has finally caught the public's attention and the problems with the post office horizon IT system are by now well known and of course documented. But one of the |
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| 1:18.5 | about the bugs that led to sub-postmasters being convicted? Today, well, we got an answer. |
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| 1:38.9 | Sitting right behind Fujitsu chief exec, Paul Patterson, |
| 1:42.0 | at the Select Committee hearing, |
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