Post Office spent at least £130m of taxpayers’ money defending itself in Horizon inquiry
Company’s annual report shows costs of £132m up to March 2024 in inquiry that ended this week
Those trying to argue their way out would, at least, have had to pay their own lawyers.
Often, the only beneficiaries of these public enquiries are the highly-paid lawyers. And then the enquiry reports are little more than whitewashes and/or therapy for the aggrieved – eg the covid enquiry…
@Theophrastus
There are always “lessons learned”. Never acted on, but definitely learned. Until the next time.
Cheaper to jail them all?
That would depend on the length of the sentence.
It would be cheaper to hang them all but failing that just fire them, cancel their pensions and declare them ineligible for all state benefits.
“Lessons will be learned and we won’t make the same mistakes next time”.
Exactly, they’ll just make different mistakes next time…….
@ TMB
Cancelling pensions that were promised wouldn’t be fair. However, declaring 100% tax rate for those in the Post Office would seem to address that issue.
Differential treatment of pensions is acceptable – see TTK and the judiciary for examples.
They are spending *someone else’s money* so they don’t care how much it costs