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What is particularly worrying for me is that this behaviour seems to reinforce the reporting in Private Eye, which has covered this for many years.

The suggestion is that the Post Office has treated its accounting system as absolute gospel. Any discrepancy therefore *must* be a result of theft/fraud of the relevant sub-postmaster. From memory, the software has been used to support quite a few criminal convictions. I think there's also a long history of the PO 'recouping' large amounts of money from sub-postmasters, relying entirely on the balances from its accounts software.

Unfortunately I suspect it will still be quite some time before the story has played out fully, not least because the PO seem determined to drag it out any way they can.

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