‘A Cover-Up from the Very Top’ Post Office Scandal Victim Dierdre Connolly

‘A Cover-Up from the Very Top’ Post Office Scandal Victim Dierdre Connolly | Good Morning Britain

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6 ай бұрын

The Post Office Inquiry turns its attention to Northern Ireland, where a former investigator, who pursued sub-postmasters, will give evidence.
Deirdre Connolly from County Tyrone was accused of stealing £15,000 and says the scandal ruined her life. She joins GMB today to discuss the impact the accusation has had, despite paying the Post Office and never being prosecuted.
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@steveobrien4141 6 ай бұрын

This is simply theft , the post office management should be in jail for it.

@andydudley1775 6 ай бұрын

it not simple theft this was preplanned even the call center was a set up.the post office federation not fit for purpose but took people money for years in subs to be told get a solicitor .it's just like c.a.b. make you wait hours to be given a apointment in 2 weeks time to be told what you already new .giving you false hope and what you get is your time waisted .evey one rich made money and had a part to play to get it.

@probro9898 6 ай бұрын

Too right they should, but they won't be. Jail is just for the little people who can't afford QCs and Womble lawyers and private nannies from Norland.

@probro9898 6 ай бұрын

It annoys me so much that Post Office still has a voice in all this, and are allowed to "oppose" oppeals. If anyone should be arguing that any appeals should be refused, it should not be an organisation that has lied and cheated and gaslighted and spent millions of taxpayer's money opposing justice. They should be in the dock themselves.

@mollienight 6 ай бұрын

Totally agree.

@terryb4547 6 ай бұрын

Not all are innocent. Clever people manipulate the system.

@probro9898 6 ай бұрын

@terryb4547 I daresay some may be guilty, but are you going to trust a demonstrably dishonest organization to point them out?

@probro9898 6 ай бұрын

@terryb4547 my replies are going missing again so I'm going to reiterate this one. I have no problem with the notion that perhaps a few of the postmasters are genuinely guilty. What I object to is the Post Office - which has proven to have acted in bad faith - should be pointing the finger at them. The accuser needs to have some claim to a moral highground over the accusee, and right now the Post Office has no moral highground over anyone.

@probro9898 6 ай бұрын

@terryb4547 And another thing: if this was the work of "clever people", they couldn't have been all that clever because they got caught. And it's not even like they were caught by clever investigation. It boiled down to (a) money seemed to go missing, (b) it couldn't be a computer error "cuz Fujitsu", (c) no one else could have taken the money "cuz Fujitsu". Therefore the postmaster must have taken it.

@damianleah6744 6 ай бұрын

Just a never ending stream of coverups and fit ups. Horrific

@andydudley1775 6 ай бұрын

was ongoing untill itv presented it .people was still being conned in admitting guilt for a post office ceo's performence bonus .and what the tory do they doubled down on who matters most by giving them honors and titles .then all of a suddon an election gets anounced and a crinaly covicted pm who stole billions all of a suddons cares .its cringing to watch.

@simmysimmy3748 6 ай бұрын

When are Vennells and her side kick Angela Van den Bogerd, going to be in front of the Inquiry panel, they have a lot to answer for.

@tomasklovas5560 6 ай бұрын

they should be rooting in jail after what they have done to these poor people

@robertsmuggles6871 6 ай бұрын

and Penny Thomas

@mollienight 6 ай бұрын

And Ed Davey, and David Cameron according to the project Sparrow files. The whole government was complicit.

@mickdowns5345 6 ай бұрын

They are due to yes, This is why they are being approached for comment (by media) but not engaging. They should play the filmed 2015 Commons Select Committee Hearing where Vennels claims there were no problems with Horizon....she is perjuring herself - as CEO she knew the layout of the land (Second Sight Report etc). Her raison d' etre seems to be "protect the good name of The PO"..at all costs.... literally at the expense of hundreds of lives - their finances, home lives, reputations in their communities. She will no doubt be being schooled VERY cleverly by an expensive legal team (well she can afford it can't she ?) on how to have selective memory / not recall etc / obfuscate / etc. That said, the Enquiry Legal Team are impressing me in terms of their probing questions. I hope The Police are not too far away from that knock on her door.

@elfboy29 6 ай бұрын

I have my popcorn at the ready.

@mikeellis4345 6 ай бұрын

Clearly the PO pursued a harsh culture and hard line policy to punish innocent people

@andydudley1775 6 ай бұрын

from the off

@mollienight 6 ай бұрын

Suzanne Winters testimony today shows no sense of remorse, and she still thinks the people she 'prosecuted' were guilty despite there not being any evidence of any loss. All these PO 'investigators' say is "I don't recall", it needs to be set to music.

@tomricketts7821 6 ай бұрын

I don’t recall. Translation if I gave a truthful answer I would convict myself

@TeddyBear-ii4yc 6 ай бұрын

God bless the lass for the indefensible fiasco they were subjected to but this was one hard interview! 😊 I don't usually feel sorry for tv folk but they had to drag the sentences out of this lady. 🙂 God luv her! 👍

@cecilefox9136 6 ай бұрын

This is absolutely scandalous.😢

@andydudley1775 6 ай бұрын

yet very common

@paulineashcroft1485 6 ай бұрын

The more I hear these heart breaking accounts from the PO victims the more disgusted I feel. Those responsible need to be named and shamed, be stripped of any honours, lose their jobs, be made to pay reparations out of their own pockets and serve jail time. Words cannot express how vile both Fujitsu and the Post Office are.

@peterlloyd6337 6 ай бұрын

God bless you Dierdre - the utter scandal of the Post Office is unforgivable. I have been watching the Inquiry Videos on You Tube and specifically re NI. Hold your head high, very high. As for the Post Office I cannot write herein what I think.

@andydudley1775 6 ай бұрын

thats right here youtube is doing it's best to look for ways to silence the public outrage .judgment is swift for us .

@miket1783-j5j 6 ай бұрын

PRISON.

@cliffordcards3238 6 ай бұрын

With so many current and former Post Office employees saying - in response to Inquiry questions - "I don't recall ..." - it begins to sound like they have all been coached to say that. Now where have we heard of that sort of thing going on before ? - Ah yes: "You're the only one who has ever had problems with Horizon ...".

@johnnock6685 6 ай бұрын

My blood boils . The whole Post Office organisation is rotten to the core

@gwyneth7812 6 ай бұрын

Most people in senior public roles are corrupt to the core. I hope this is not an attempt to take away our post offices - what they need to do is remove most senior people in public office and remind them of morals and integrity.

@tomricketts7821 6 ай бұрын

The whole corporate culture through the western world has become corrupt and rotten to the core Thatcher Reagan et all have a lot to answer for Trump has latched on to a genuine and justified stream of anger from ordinary people shame he would be a cure far more extreme than the cause

@annettewalter2273 5 ай бұрын

How horrible that their friends started accusing them as well. They weren’t friends they were just horrible. It’s heart breaking to hear all of these stories. Why is there not a blanket quashing of the sentences.

@tomricketts7821 5 ай бұрын

@@annettewalter2273 the Tories being Tories are looking to minimise the compensation payouts after all the post masters are only little people not important ones

@anthonywilson8998 6 ай бұрын

When are they going to mention that Crozier who was head ofITV was in charge of PO from2003 to 2010 when most of the atrocities were taking place. Hi h is why this was not publicised this way.

@johngreen6191 6 ай бұрын

These poor people will suffer forever. Their pension and NI contributions have also been affected. Really shocking.

@terryb4547 6 ай бұрын

Your easily fooled not all are innocent, before compensation is paid make them take a lie detector test

@hayleyfay4779 6 ай бұрын

Apology.. what about compensation????

@cliveturner4788 6 ай бұрын

The Post Office and Royal Mail are different organisations. Don’t imply that they are the same by showing Royal Mail post boxes in your illustrations………

@mollienight 6 ай бұрын

Adam Crozier as ceo of royal mail closed 7000 post offices. As ceo between 2003 and 2010 he knew what was going on in post offices. Start researching and stop spinning.

@andydudley1775 6 ай бұрын

@@mollienight it a win win to make sub post master bankrupt to close the post office.

@andydudley1775 3 ай бұрын

more to show this was planned .

@steveobrien4141 6 ай бұрын

Not " remembering" what wrong doings that post office staff have done , IS NO DEFENCE.

@palemale2501 6 ай бұрын

So the Post Office Northern Ireland were provided with an independent forensic accounting report in December 2004 for a defendant's case, which showed inexplicable serious Horizon computer errors, and this must surely have been distributed within Post Office London HQ - but did not initiate a wide thorough investigation. So a 1,000 prosecutions plus 3,000 repaying false shortages continued (and probably the remaining 4,000 postmasters repaying, secretly in fear) for a further 10 years.

@palemale2501 6 ай бұрын

Shameful history - then add the slowness of overturning judgements and providing the awarded compensation, and paltry amounts offered, yet still the Post Office is behind all these hindrances, involving hundreds of millions in legal fees for everyone, is adding further national disgrace. Post Office paid more for their lawyers than compensation,

@davidgay1z 5 ай бұрын

Here is the thing, apart from all the other aspects of this affair the role of Lord Neuberger in the Recusal seems to have escaped attention. I have therefore pasted the following ‘The role of Lord Neuberger in the recusal fiasco (Justice Fraser) should be investigated’ on as many KZfaq articles as I could, about ten, but when I checked to see if there was any response I discovered they had all been taken down. This Kafkaesque episode staggers one at every turn, even when Big brother has been outed he seems to be still working away! I really want to know why Lord Neuberger interfered , if the recusal had succeeded the whole noble attempt at taking on the stinking system would have failed

@TheSapphire51 6 ай бұрын

The Post Office needs to be disbanded and a new organization based on honesty and fair treatment of staff needs to be set up. No one could trust that organization ever again.

@peeg09 6 ай бұрын

The Tory government is a disgrace. They've been in charge for nearly 14 years & have never sorted this out. The Post Office/Tory Government are a DISGRACE!

@splatten8597 6 ай бұрын

We’re the interviews carried out in accordance with the law. I believe Bradshaw mentioned PACE interviews. That document is worth a look as it seems there are grave discrepancies in that procedure

@sueh427 6 ай бұрын

I think the PACE that Bradshaw referred to was the lighting pace that the poor victims were prosecuted . From what I've seen and heard of the interviews they were more in line with Gestapo interviews than PACE. Perhaps PACE stands for Prosecute All Concoct Evidence.

@splatten8597 6 ай бұрын

@@sueh427 it’s a legal basis for witness statements and it doesn’t look like he followed it

@sueh427 6 ай бұрын

@@splatten8597 it doesn't look like they followed any procedures properly.

@tangledcharlotte 6 ай бұрын

SW issued a classic non-apology.

@mollienight 6 ай бұрын

"I don't recall" is the apology and the mantra. I wish the inquiry would ask the real question - how much did you get in bonuses for convictions?

@terryb4547 6 ай бұрын

Before compensation is paid, let these people take a lie detector test . Not all are innocent ,

@TheSapphire51 6 ай бұрын

How do you know?

@theagitator7337 6 ай бұрын

What a fatuous thing to say. You know nothing. You have been watching too many American TV shows.

@andydudley1775 3 ай бұрын

did paula order you to say that.

@Andrew-rc3vh 6 ай бұрын

It's a waste of time listening to this if you want to know about the post office. This is women's talk on how did you feel stuff and how it must have been hard etc.

@paulhorgan6152 6 ай бұрын

When Vennells gives her honour back and quite rightly so and in the same vane Mr Battes SHOULD receive a knighthood it will be quite ironic receiving that from the Kings post office