Computer Weekly Covers LCSC Launch

Children of Post Office victims to hold Fujitsu boss to his word.

Computer Weekly's Karl Flinders, who first broke the whole Post Office Scandal in 2009 and is a veteran in reporting the story ever since, covered the launch of Lost Chances on 14th March.

The children of victims of the Post Office scandal have formed a group that will hold Fujitsu’s European boss to his promise of support.

The children of former subpostmasters whose lives were ruined by the Post Office Horizon scandal have come together to form a support group which is to hold Fujitsu to its promise of support.

The Lost Chances for Subpostmasters’ Children campaign group’s first port of call was Fujitsu, after the company’s European head promised support for subpostmasters and their families.

Fujitsu boss, Paul Patterson, said in a recent parliamentary select committee hearing: “I think there are things that we can do in our technology world that may or may not be of help to subpostmasters and their associated families.”

After reading a Computer Weekly article, about Fujitsu wanting to establish how it could support scandal victims and their families in the future, Katie Downey, daughter of former subpostmaster and victim of the scandal Tony Downey, decided to hold the tech giant to its word.

She told Computer Weekly: “I read the article and thought, who is going to take them up on that offer then?”

Read Karl Flinders' Computer Weekly report here.