Get up earlier ...Bradshaw investigator POST OFFICE

Well, here's an interesting interview I found flagged up on X/Twitter. This postmaster was in a meeting with 2 PO investigators and 2 representatives from Fujitsu when his Horizon terminal made a transaction right in front of their eyes and no-one had touched it! This was in 2001..

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0h4bjxm

It seems to me that a lot of these people were Asian or women or both. Was there some discrimination going on here?

One postmistress, Shazia Saddiq, said she had received intimidating phone calls from Bradshaw in which he failed to identify himself. She claims he called her a bitch.

Mrs Saddiq said she fled her home with her children “in the night like refugees” after members of the community who thought her a thief lobbed eggs and flour at them.

The children managed to take their teddies with them.

She had multiple post office branches in Newcastle between 2009 and 2016 – when she was terminated – but one of them suffered a cyber attack in 2014 after which more than £30,000 seemingly went missing.

The £30,000 was later found in one of the Post Office's suspense accounts.

Mafia is the right word for those people.

I think this is an extreme example of how big organisations treat ordinary people, I'm sure we've all been in the situation where we've been arguing with some big organisation and have been + felt powerless once they decide you're guilty they plough on regardless. I hope it people who have withheld evidence or misled the court will be held to account at some future point so people cannot do as they may have been instructed and misinform court or managers

I hope the Met have him on their shopping list.

If Stephen Bradshaw is the face of the Post Office they need to take drastic action. It may actually be too late. The damage has already been done.

Probably watched "The Godfather" far too many times? About as far from Don Corleone as you can get!

A weasel, spiv looking character who admitted that the Post Office operated a bonus-per-conviction strategy. His bosses will love him for that - I expect his P45 will be in the post any day soon.

Why did he turn up at the enquiry wearing a black shirt which made him look like someone from the mafia? As if what he said wasn’t bad enough.

Germanshepherdsmum

Or maybe lying witness, guilty of perjury? We shall see.

I’ve heard chunks of his evidence as I’ve been driving today. He’s a most unpleasant individual. I’m anticipating the Judge concluding he wasn’t a reliable witness.
He’s attempting to say because he isn’t ’technically Minded’ and ‘top brass’ didn’t tell him there was a Fujitsu problem, that ‘lawyers’ wrote his statements and told him to sign them - that non of this scandal is anything to do with him in any way.
Just the kind of witnesses the Court sees through.

From his belligerent presentation I’ve no difficulty believing he bullied post people

Or maybe lying witness, guilty of perjury? We shall see.

Unsatisfactory witness: to be disregarded by the learned judge.

GSM we can but hope someone serves him some ‘rough’ justice.. displays horrible character..☹️

But I hope he faces justice. I have been pondering on what charge he might face … he abused his position to lie (including, it seems, to the court) and bully. There are possibilities.

Whitewavemark2

I reckon that he got away with his obnoxious incompetent behaviour because of the PO culture.

Yes, exactly. I hope he is not going to be made the "fall guy" for the whole toxic organisation

I reckon that he got away with his obnoxious incompetent behaviour because of the PO culture.

The ultimate ‘little Hitler’.

He looked as if he had enjoyed being in a position to bully, but he must also have known that he would not be censured for that behaviour by his bosses.

He makes me feel ashamed to be a Liverpudlian! A very sluippery customer.

An obnoxious oik if ever I saw one, more suited to collecting debts with menaces.