I disagree, we don't just have to accept that at all - it is patently completely and utterly unacceptable, no matter what direction your own leanings might be.
Purgery has been committed. People have knowingly lied in order to wrongly prosecute innocent sub-postmasters, to save their own skins...
This has totally exposed what a huge, grubby, arse-covering exercise the PO and its lawyers embarked on, whilst fully in the knowledge that as a direct result of their deception and lies, innocent postmasters were losing their livelihoods, and some going to prison.
There HAS to be lawyers...
Very much this.
The notion that hundreds of sub-postmasters, who had been doing the job for years and years, many of whom were pillars of their local communities, would suddenly turn into THIEVES following the introduction of a new IT system is an absolute nonsense.
Sadly its not inexplicable...
This 4-parter is excellent viewing, and culminates in a documentary on Friday. I've followed it since the scandal broke, and the blood runs cold at the magnitude of what these poor innocent folk were put through. People were jailed, lost their livelihoods, and in some cases lost their lives...