‘I blame the Post Office for my husband’s death’: Widow speaks about Horizon compensation | ITV News
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- Опубліковано 11 кві 2024
- For the twenty years of her widowhood, Gowri has wondered: what really happened on the last day of her husband's life.
The facts of his death are simple. But the sudden financial crisis that drove him to suicide remains mysterious.
"There were two officers. And I think the police also came. And I asked them, 'where is he? Where is my husband?' And they said he is under audit. Under investigation."
Jayakanthan ran a string of convenience stores. And he'd recently taken on a Post Office branch in west London. Suddenly, there was money missing from its accounts.
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If the CEO doesn't do jail time ,then the inquiry is a farce 😡
and we all know its just a farce,
If you think any inquiry holds true accountability, you're mistaken. It's all pre-planned theater, ensuring they can proclaim innocence once the charade concludes.
For sure ! 😢
My heart bleeds for you and your children. My view from the top down of Post Office Executives needs to be charged, tried, and jail for your husband & others
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Mine doesn't
of which we all know will never happen,worldwide its has never happened, 99,99 % of politicians are corrupt and dishonest,
Sadly corporate crime is very rarely prosecuted in the UK. Nobody was ever prosecuted over Grenfell. News International was not prosecuted over phone hacking, despite the wealth of evidence. The UK has not prosecuted any corporation, or it's senior management, in 10 years. I doubt anybody involved in this scandal will be charged. They got away with it. Which is why the Fujitsu and post office management appear so smug at the enquiry. They know nothing will happen to them. Their income, savings and capital are safe.
They were HUMAN lives mental woman and children what has origin to do with it
This Post Office scandal has shown there is something evil at the top of our society I am so sorry that you and your poor Husband have been subjected to these greedy incompetent people & that the Government & the Justice System allowed it to happen
Would have to agree everything good seems to be disappearing from this country a replaced with unrelenting greed for money, which is the root of all evil. The gov is an absolute disgrace a is obviously corrupt to the core. Sad times.
it happens world wide
Paule and her criminal cronies need to face jail time.
but we know it will never happen, in history which person in like these cases have been prosecuted, politicians protect each other, because if one admits liability then it will snow ball down the chain, 99.99 % of politicians are corrupt, they are there only for money gain and not for the people,
Serious double digit jail time imho
Unbelievable
I feel nothing but absolute RAGE 😡
YOU GIVE HER THE MONEY AND NOW !!!
This is heartbreaking , having an enquiry isn't enough there should be criminal charges.
Fully agree crimes were committed
There surely must be. I have heard talk of crowd funding to bring this corrupt organisation to justice. I will certainly donate to any such cause.
There was no missing money. Why don’t they ever state that. It was horizon’s own malfunctioning. There was no money gone.
The money the postmasters were forced to pay did all go missing however, it seems
Funny that
@@Tyrrituilit goes into the post 😮office profits
since Fujistu staff could access the system with no checks, balances or audit trails, there is EVERY possibility that it was stolen by Fujitsu, yet this bunch of incompetent crooks STILL manage many government services costing the country billions
The human cost of this scandal has been truly heartbreaking. Yes, you can financially compensate people (and even that isn't happening in many cases!) but how can you compensate people for time spent wrongfully imprisoned, or worse still, for lives lost....? We are a long, long way from true justice in this country!
A criminal prosecution is supposed to be ‘beyond reasonable doubt’, not ‘on the balance of probabilities’. That letter rejecting the claim is disgusting.
And remember ‘innocent until proved guilty’. It’s gone these days.
It makes you wonder how this society is able to function at all, with people knowing criminals run the show and nobody can stop them.
My heart goes put to her and all of thise postal workers affected.
Half hearted apologies and words of sympathy years after the event but not a single charge brought by the police against those responsible for this travesty of justice. The UK 2024. Shameful.
If all these post masters stole money, e.g 180K, what did they do with the money. Does 180K show up in their bank accounts or have they made purchases that exceed their income? Surely this would have been part of the investigation? They are accused of stealing large amounts but there is no sign of it in their banks or lifestyles? What sort of investigation was conducted. A faulty one.
Yes, in many cases the falsely accused and convicted became penniless and homeless, some living in caravans. If they had stolen, say, 180K, where is the money, and how does POL explain the victims resulting financial position? Were the phantom cash discrepancies shown in POL's annual accounts and claimed as tax deductions?
Exactly. A competent, thorough and professional investigation would look look for the money. A complete shambles and miscarriage of justice
Unbelievably sad in this day and age! I feel ill thinking about it..A real shameful period in history of post office
Appalling behaviour from the Post office. Again.
Victims alive or passed should still get compensation, no justice it’s disgusting behaviour from PO Fujitsu & gov to allow this to carry on for years.
😊the big question remains…if this man committed fraud…….where is the money ? And as in most of the cases…. The money has nt been tracked..no one is living in the lap of luxury. It’s an utter disgrace. For the people who repaid what money they could..where has that money gone? What have the P.O. done with it, given that it was nt missing in the first place.
Thousands can vanish and say it wasn’t tracked. I doubt it
My dear Lady. I feel for you and if it was’nt for the ITV drama we would never have known anything. Shame on the CEO responsible. I hope you will see justice prevail at the end of all this.
These reports are so excruciating....how has a groundswell of collective outrage not risen up? Who are the British 😢
How the hell are the Post Office still getting away with it? Still trying to limit the damage, they need to pay these people what they deserve, the amounts should be high, they have completely ruined lives. My heart bleeds for these people, the sooner they get the justice they deserve the better. The whole organisation should be ashamed and they are not helping things now!
The Post Office is still getting away with it because it is still being run by a cabal of sociopathic monsters.
God bless her....
How will that be compensated ? In America this claim alone would close the post office
£180,000 shortfall! What was he running a branch of Harrod's? If I was doing an audit I would be questioning the Post Office (and Fujitsu) how much business does this small size post office conduct on an average day and how come could such a sizable deficit arise, the auditors are clearly guilty of failling to diligently check all of the figures. By signing off the accounts the auditors are grossly negligent in their duties.
My sincere sympathies to Gowri and Rest in Peace all of those who died as a result of this despicable wrongdoing
I left the UK for a better life in 1992. I’m from a middle class family. I couldn’t stand the establishment and social disparity.
So cruel she needs support and compensation
The post office managers need to start understanding their behaviour ruined people and cost lives. Now they need to take responsibility for their actions.
What a disgusting letter from the Post Office..
And sadly he wasn't the only person to die from this shocking scandal...
The Post Office also makes out they're paying out Compensation claims ...Well they're not actually.
What they've been offering to some victims of this scandal is only about 10 to 15 % of claims even though those claims have been done by accountants forensically ...
evil..evil..evil...
This is DEVASTATING. Fujitsu/Horizon and the Post Office HAD BETTER, AT LEAST, pay out to this family ... to the fatherless children and to his widow.
Shocking story. My heart bleeds for this family. I hope they find truth, justice and some sort of closure (if that is really possible)
these soooo many cases!!!!
So, so sad for you. I hope justice comes to you eventually.
On the balance of probabilities🙄
Did he steal the money? He ran a string of shops. It would have been second nature for him to know that theft on that scale would be detected within hours.
No, he didn't steal anything. Check out the ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office, or look into the inquiry of Horizon (Fujitsu)
Edit: ITV should make this clear he had not stolen
@@crystalaustralia that was my point. Of course he didn't steal anything. I suspect he thought the shortfall was somehow real and he would have to make good.
@robertwalker1079 ah, I see. Yes, from the drama and short news interviews I noticed some subpostmasters accepted or asked for more training to do the accounts. Others knew they weren't making mistakes, but were made to pay the fake shortfalls, and as you say there's no way this gentleman would steal.
Just another disgusting thing done by the PO. I hope she gets justice for her family.
On the balance of probabilities, with "no Horizon data"... where did the Horizon evidence go?
Shall we assume an honest man in all other areas of business is honest in this one?
"The Post Office told us they are sorry for pain and suffering of Horizon's victims." Whose victims? Please tell this widow who is responsible for the lack of Horizon data. How can Gowri not receive compensation when they know what Fujitsu and Post Office covered up?
The post office is to blame for this tragedy no dout
These auditors need to pay big time.
How can it not be Horizon? The crime would make zero sense for him to commit. They even admit they don't have the Horizon data. Hope Paula spends the rest of her life locked up.
We all blame the Post Office. It’s senior management, it’s culture, it’s lack of ethics, morality and humanity in dealing with the scandal by trying to hide and persecute and prosecute the innocent. Serious thought needs to be given to what Bates said in passing about selling it for a nominal fee into private hands so we don’t fund them and systematic review of the organisation can take place.
Private will be even worse
I understand the consequence of Horizon's system. Can anyone explain why Horizon created an accounting/transaction system which allowed real time editing and reconciliation without transctional recording and time stamping in the first instance. I am missing something.
Absolutely they are responsible,, go on girl take all of these b…..ds to court , crowd fund the costs I’m certain we the vast unwashed will stump up the millions needed ,,
I'm with you.
unreal
So where did the money go if it wasn’t Horizon cockup? Of course it was Horizon.
Sad to say she never well ! 😢
Its. A total disgrace and the post office should be held to account.
Let me see if I understand. He bought a Post Office and as soon as the deal went through there was an audit. This audit discovered a very significant sum of money was missing. Or was this dicovered and that was the reason for the audit? Were the people who owned it before also under investigation? This Post Office Horizon scandal, the more I hear about it, the more it makes my blood boil. 🤬
This is a disgrace. It's totally obvious the post office was to blame for this postal workers death. Give this lady her compensation. These people at the top of the post office are still dishing out punishment and still denying their abhorrant attack on the postal workers. This man didn't take his life until he was confronted with this unproven loss. This adds up to another victim of the post office. The post office should not be the one to decide on this case after the hounding and imprisonment of innocent workers. This case of a man taking his own life was caused by 25years of the post office, horizon, fijitsu, and the government covering up the truth. He was not the only one who took his own life for something that was not his fault. MORALS NOT MONEY STOP THE TORIES STOP THE LIES STOP MONES BOAT
And to think the head of the Post Office went to church knowing she was responsible for blood on her hands.
There was a comment online that the post office could be prosecuted for involuntary manslaughter where situations like this one
Good morning 🙏🙏
And the Post Office/ their directors should pay. Not the tax payer. So what the scumbags go bankrupt.
Evil people give her the money
Fujitsu computer nerds 'playing' with the figures that resulted in the death of an innocent man and ongoing torment to his widow and family. Fujitsu nerds need to be held accountable.
100% the post office are to blame.
How many postmasters who were sent to prison, were of various ethnicities? This group would have felt very vulnerable and exposed to savage legal recourse. I wonder if anyone has looked into the ethnic makeup and deduced blatant discrimination.
Is Fujitsu in for another government contract?
F. F. S. IF he stole it where F. F. S. did he hide it U& from his wife. PILLOX!!!!
Apparently the post office sometimes loses information huh do you know what that sounds like you lose the information that’s incriminating but you don’t lose the stuff that keeps you safe justice for this poor woman and her family and God dammit Britain clean out your post office the same as we got a clean out our government you need to clean out your badly this is disgusting
And the next scandell is vennels will walk free
Post Office 100% are to blame for death.....
What do you mean as a news reporter is all truth will be lost if it’s incriminating state the facts we know what the government is like
Its sad but l ask myself why take your life , was there a reason for his fear , please do not dismiss what l say think about it yes innocent people bulled But were some worried at what may be found out in the up and coming , investigation
The whole country blames the post office. Except the bribed mp’s. 😢
Oooff she’s proper fit af
MIGRANT MONEY GRABBERS 😂😂😂😂
Why would he panic if he wasn’t guilty of any offenses?
jurk..u know nothing about mental health!!!!!
Simpleton
Because you can still go to jail for a crime you didn't commit. The justice system isn't perfect, and assuming that you're safe because you've done nothing wrong is naive at best
Because he wasn’t guilty.
@@RainAndRay Indeed. Hundreds of people have been wrongly convicted in this case. I believe it to be the largest miscarriage of justice in the UK. I, too, would panic if this corrupt organisation was on my case.
Most are widows because they bumped off their spouses themselves
What a bizarre comment. Evidence please...
what a callous heartless comment. i would never wish for anyone to suffer the same fate as this woman...
What a heartless comment…..delete your comment now @guff
You need to see a doctor as soon as possible, i feel sorry for you.
@guff…..remove your heartless comment …..now
Her English is fantastic but but but