I saw an interesting story about the Post Office IT system scandal that's doing the rounds at the moment, it claims that a chap called Jason Coyne (an IT expert) knew about the bugs in the Post Office computer system back in 2003 and was actually commissioned by that organisation to produce a report on them, which he duly did. Unfortunately (or perhaps predictably) the management ignored his report, sacked him and then tried to discredit his firm.
It seems that there really are no redeeming features of this archaic organisation! I think that however the stories of the victims of these crimes pan out there should be (as a minimum) several actions taken,
- Prosecute the PO managers who either mislead or lied to the various enquiries/claimants
- Claw back performance bonuses
- Cancel any Government/Fujitsu contracts
- Sue Fujitsu for losses and damages
- Ban Fujitsu from all future Government contracts
- Give Alan Bates an OBE, and compensate him for the years he's spent working on this case
I seriously doubt many or even any of these things will happen, but with a fair wind and public opinion behind the various campaigns, I can only hope that some of them will.
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