Revisited: The Post Office scandal, part 2
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi, this is Neshine. |
| 0:07.0 | Following the huge impact of the recent I TV dramatisation, the post office IT scandal, |
| 0:16.0 | one of Britain's worst ever miscarriages of justice, has been centre stage in the news. |
| 0:22.0 | Back in 2021, we looked in depth at this time. has been center stage in the news. |
| 0:22.6 | Back in 2021, we looked in depth at this story |
| 0:25.3 | over two episodes and the shocking way |
| 0:27.6 | the post office ignored warnings about glitches |
| 0:30.3 | in its computer system and instead aggressively pursued prosecutions against its own staff. |
| 0:37.0 | Today we're rerunning both episodes in fall. |
| 0:40.0 | This is part two. Yesterday we told you the story of Janet Skinner, a sub-postmaster from Hull who one day |
| 0:59.9 | noticed that the computer system she used to manage her accounts said she should |
| 1:05.0 | have 7,000 pounds more cash in her till than was actually there. That 7,000 became 20,000, then 45,000, and then 59,000. |
| 1:19.3 | She had no idea how it had happened, but the post office wasn't in the mood for excuses. It |
| 1:25.6 | launched an aggressive private prosecution that resulted in her serving time |
| 1:30.4 | in prison. I had that lock and then obviously the security guards stood up behind me. |
| 1:38.0 | He said, please rise my Skinner and obviously you will be taken down. |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah, and I cried. All I did was cry. |
| 1:47.0 | When she was released Janet thought two things, |
| 1:50.0 | but this was the end of her nightmare |
| 1:52.0 | and that she was the only person this had happened to. |
| 1:56.0 | But she couldn't have been more wrong. |
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