So far 2500+ victims have been paid out although the government have now pledged £600,000 to each victim. I daresay there will be thousands more to follow. Then of course there were those who the PO investigators never caught up with. Based on the fact that Horizon had access to every operating system (all of them) the compensation could become massive. In the £ billions now for sure. Fujitsu had better get ready for some hefty costs. The Horizon interns were clearly part of the issue of a totally useless system.
This has got years to rumble on still.

Edited by dreamwaverider (09 Jan 2024 4.26pm)

I don't see, from my own experience in IT, how Fujitsu could have signed off on this software which it's obvious faults, nor how the PO could have accepted it.

Nobody listened to the users, nobody sat in to see what was happening.

Instead they were arrogant, disbelieving, it couldn't possibly be them.

How often do we see that.

I have a vested interest into how public money is spent. Specifically by the Cabinet Office.

About 2 years ago, the CO was taken to court by a French IT company that had bid to build a new supercomputer for the Met Office.

Despite following all the CO's procurement guidelines, despite meeting all the spec requirements and despite quoting less than the other bidder, it was that other bidder, that won the tender.

I was due to attend Court but the night before the CO settled. They paid £24m of tax payers money to make it go away. All for not following their own in house procurement process.

I tried to find out more via a FOI request which was turned down.

I write to my local Conservative MP. He didn't want to know.

Draw your own conclusions !

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Government, local government, the public sector as a whole wastes tens - maybe hundreds - of billions of pounds of our money every year.
From the small stuff like stationery all the way up to these ridiculous IT systems that never work.
The people doling out the contracts or buying the goods generally do not care - they don't see it as their money (even though a fraction of it is) and so they do not take the care or responsibility that they should.
I run my own business and when anything new has to happen I question it to the nth degree and play devil's advocate until I truly believe that I am doing the right thing for the right money.
I do not believe that anyone in the public sector does the same and on top of that most people supplying to the public sector regularly overcharge for their goods and services and no one gives a toss.
Every Government for too many years has done the exact same thing.
It is an expensive blot that with some decent leadership could be eradicated to a large extent very quickly.
From the moment Horizon was used all the way through to now people have lied and they should go to prison for their crimes and that includes Vennells and even Crozier if he was a part of it.
Let's see them suffer!

Even before Sunak announced that all convicted postmasters would be acquitted, experts were criticising such a move on the grounds that it would represent an unprecedented case of granting Parliament primacy over the Judiciary, which would be an affront to our democracy. On "The World at One" former Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell took the same line.

An emailer to LBC this morning pointed out that this wouldn't be unprecedented, since Parliament had done the same when it decided in the late nineties to release convicted IRA terrorists, torturers and murderers.

I'm no expert, but that makes sense to me.