Where has the money gone Mr Read? Post Office inquiry and Sam Stein KC asks Nick Read the question.

Where has the money gone Mr Read? Post Office inquiry and Sam Stein KC asks Nick Read the question.

If you listen to the answer Read gives, he has no clue and sounds like he has no real care either.

There will be no resolution to this dreadful and disgusting debacle if something as simple as this question stumps the top types in the Post Office.

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[belchnasty]

Fucking bonuses to the managers...that's where it's gone.

[damianleah]

£36 million they are saying has been lost, it was a manufactured loss by the horizon system, so it never existed in the first place. The only money missing is the sub post master’s money that needs paying back to them asap.

[michaelwilkinson]

Time to pay out all the money and imprison senior PO and Fujitsu staff who lied in Court to get false convistions.

[davidrobertson]

So the post office needs to be charged with FALSE ACCOUNTING too

[tullochgorum]

Good grief - they didn't even keep proper accounts. The levels of incompetence and malice being revealed are simply jaw-dropping...

[LarrySlazenger]

He still didn’t say where it’s gone……absolute shithouse.

[commonman]

Massive fraud and postmasters got the blame, yes where did the money go.

[IndyBrainWave]

So, he thinks that the response "I don't know what happened to the money, the accounting system doesn't make sense" is completely acceptable when *he* says it, but is criminal when a postmaster says it. Seems legit.

[jamiecampbell]

For goodness sake! Each subpostmaster knows how much was taken from them by the Post Office. Just give them their money back. It’s THEIR money. They don’t need forensic accountants to tell them how much.

[GrandadNorth]

Another bumbling overpaid fool who cant give a straight answer to a very simple question 🤬

[DerrickJenkins-sc]

Despite a very loquacious statement from Read, answer was there none to Mr Stein's perfectly reasonable question. Just verbiage about 'challenges' and various 'accounts' which are unspecified and which Read is unable or (more likely) unwilling to explain. This man thinks that he is helpful and transparent in his dealings, but is nothing of the kind. A self-serving, duplicitous crook.

[alanmartin]

What a waffler! Just the latest in a long line of wafflers we have had to listen to in this Inquiry! A lot of them should end up behind bars!

[paulinereid]

Absolutely USELESS!! And clueless! And deceitful! All you have to do is to look at each individual Postmaster, see how much the Post Office illegeally extorted from them; how much they paid the post office - and that's your answer. You reimburse each Postmaster what they were forced to pay - with interest AND compensation . Not hard - just do it case by case. And don't say it takes too long - look how long it's taken already. Do they think that if they drag it out long enough, everyone will forget, or die off - and they will get to keep the blood money?

[niknaklady]

£36 million between 1999 and 2015!!! Shocking

[philthrelfall]

He admitted that some customer & client money "went into the bottom line"!!! That is fraud, pure & simple!

[andrewbaldock]

Even Dick Turpin would be embarrassed 😳

[grahamstephenson]

cease all pension funds of these two tongued buffoons.

[markfox]

Piffle&Bosh----where is the money!! More importantly-Where are The Metropolitan

[stueyapstuey]

Short version of the answer: We don't know, but it was easier to blame the postmasters than find out. Sorry for getting caught. (Oops!)

[kevinbultitude]

Everyone knows where the money has gone! It’s gone to the criminals in suits! Lock them up!