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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Right from the very start of deployment of the system, there were bugs and errors and defects, which were well-known to all parties," said Paul Patterson, co-CEO of Fujitsu's European division.
During the prosecutions, courts hearing cases against postal employees "were not told of 29 bugs identified as early as 1999 in the system it built," The Guardian wrote in a summary of Patterson's testimony today.
Asked by the lead counsel of the public inquiry, Jason Beer KC, whether he agreed that this was shameful, Patterson, who has worked at the company for 14 years, said: "That would be one word I would use.
A Financial Times article said that the public inquiry "heard in December last year that the Post Office's lawyers had rewritten Fujitsu witness statements."
Earlier this week, Patterson told UK Parliament members that "Fujitsu would like to apologize for our part in this appalling miscarriage of justice.
Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake, the MP for Thirsk and Malton, told the BBC that his "number one priority" is to "try and get compensation and get answers for people."
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If this becomes a right and just world? Yes. In reality this has been a known thing for decades and its still going on because....thats the world we live in.
Some people will get a slap on the wrist, some will get promotions, and the people who are wrongly convicted will be handed a few bucks and told to watch their ass.
This is the UK, not the US. There will be little to no fallout from this, and the victims will be threatened with consequences for speaking out.
In the us basically nothing would happen either lol
There would be a class action lawsuit where lawyers take two thirds of the settlement and those affected would get enough for a fancy Starbucks coffee.
And, of course, they would be shamed for how they spent it and told thats why people are poor.
Class action lawsuits usually give about a third to the lawyers, and the rest is divided between the plaintiffs, so most of them get 10 or 20 bucks.