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Topic History of: Government says the CCRC is not fit for purpose Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Green Man
Wyot
Green Man wrote: The Post Office scandal will be a political football in the election
If it is it will be a waste of time: most people think it is a sad story about being a postmaster, not the death of freedoms fought for since Magna Carta (Great Charta and 1215 for anyone educated at Eton...)
Green Man
The Post Office scandal will be a political football in the election or the government will give the victims a large sum each as a bribe.
The tech companies are on the government payroll and Fujitsu know's the government secrets.
Wyot
Sadly outside of those directly affected no one cares about wrongful convictions until the issue gains sufficient media and so then political attention.
Notions of due process, blind justice and innocent until proven guilty have been replaced by cost cutting, identity politics and victims must be believed.
JK2006
People in media don't seem to be covering this aspect of the Post Office scandal. If it's taken 30 years for Justice to emerge and even now only 93 of the 800+ wrongfully convicted have been cleared, let alone compensated, something is very wrong with the system.
If even only 750 of the convicted were innocent, what the hell is the matter with the CCRC?
It's meant to sort out wrongful convictions. Why so long? Why so few?
And how many others have been wrongly convicted? After watching The Jury on Ch4, many might think - THOUSANDS.
How many have been freed? Only dozens.