Former sub-postmasters have come forward to claim they were wrongly accused of stealing from the Post Office due to issues with the Capture system , was first rolled out to branches in 1992 with the Post Office promising it would “simplify the task of keeping accounts”.In some cases, that appear to echo the experience of Horizon scandal victims, some people were prosecuted for those shortfalls.
Rupert Lloyd Thomas, a former IT specialist at the Post Office for 27 years before he retired in 2001, discovered the newspaper reports and toldHe claims he had widespread concerns about IT systems used by the Post Office during his time as an employee, including both Capture and Horizon. He added: “I was very concerned about all the different computer systems. I wrote a memo in the 90s about some of the systems and some of the decision making around that. Most of which I was unhappy about.Former sub-postmaster Steve Marston, 67, was prosecuted by the Post Office for theft and false accounting offences in 1998 after suffering unexplained Capture shortfalls.He pleaded guilty believing it was the only way to avoid going to prison but has always maintained his innocence.
“This revelation clearly shows that Capture was a large system and the Post Office need to come clean as a matter of urgency as to how many sub-postmasters were involved and how many were prosecuted,” he added.
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