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To be clear it’s the Post Office that’s accused of editing Fujitsu’s statements.
by jahewson 3y ago
To be clear it’s the Post Office that’s accused of editing Fujitsu’s statements.
- stefan_ 3y agoBut it was Fujitsu staff acting as witnesses in trials.
- PakG1 3y agoIf it was the Post Office editing Fujitsu's statements, who better than Fujitsu staff to confirm as a trial witness what was in the original pre-edited statements?
- fauigerzigerk 3y agoI'm not sure whether the same Fujitsu people who wrote the witness statements were then questioned in a court room.
- paulmd 3y agoGP's point is that it's not "the police" accused of editing the statements, because these were private criminal prosecutions (a unique feature of the british legal systems) in which the Post Office acted as the prosecutor. ie it's not a matter of trusting that "officers of the court" did this, because the prosecutor was not really an officer of the court, they were acting as a private citizen or (in this case) a representative of a private corporation. You are trusting that some rando working their 9-5 did not unduly "tweak" the words of the witnesses that are used as evidence to prosecute you.