(This was not a Horizon case. This postmistress had taken money over a a period of time, she run more than one post office. When Auditors visited, she moved funds between branches in an attempt to cover her thefts over a number of years)
Oakham Post Office sub-postmaster sent to prison for the theft of £113,000
In court she said trading had been difficult since 2010.
Post Office Limited pays all the country's 9,000 sub-postmasters a minimum payment of £10,000 a year
Additional Income is earned from bonuses and sales.
(a local trader said they have sympathy for the manager, I wonder if they had £113,000 of their stock stolen they would hold the culprit in such high regard?)
If trade was so poor I wonder why the family sponsored local charities such as Oakham In Bloom?
The Chairman of Oakham in Bloom was reprimanded last year, She is also a Town Councillor and was the Chair of Oakham Carnival and after a committee row she disbanded the carnival and gave away thousands
of pounds of public money. The Councils Solicitors said the Town Council was a fault for not attaching conditions to the money granted.
It seems that most local groups are controlled by the same few people and large sums of public money
float around with few checks around how it is spent. If you try to gain access to information they hide behind
charity status.
This week I published the minutes of a Arts 4 Rutland Committee meeting obtained and published in the public interest.
Those minutes show how the Curve Leicester apparently supports their bid for an Arts Council grant, for
an event to be held at Kendrew Barracks in 2014. It is suggest the Committee made up of the same old elite
I hope the Arts Council do proper checks before granting any large amount of public money. Especially when the minutes also suggest the committee might like to hide some of the income from ticket sales.
After publishing this post, I expect Leicestershire's Detective Sergeant Mc Donald to be reminded of his comment
"you should not interfere in local politics"
It seems to me Leicestershire Police needs some political training and keep their nose out of local politics.
Politics is meant to be for all not just the rotten elite of this town and county.
In court she said trading had been difficult since 2010.
Post Office Limited pays all the country's 9,000 sub-postmasters a minimum payment of £10,000 a year
Additional Income is earned from bonuses and sales.
(a local trader said they have sympathy for the manager, I wonder if they had £113,000 of their stock stolen they would hold the culprit in such high regard?)
If trade was so poor I wonder why the family sponsored local charities such as Oakham In Bloom?
The Chairman of Oakham in Bloom was reprimanded last year, She is also a Town Councillor and was the Chair of Oakham Carnival and after a committee row she disbanded the carnival and gave away thousands
of pounds of public money. The Councils Solicitors said the Town Council was a fault for not attaching conditions to the money granted.
It seems that most local groups are controlled by the same few people and large sums of public money
float around with few checks around how it is spent. If you try to gain access to information they hide behind
charity status.
This week I published the minutes of a Arts 4 Rutland Committee meeting obtained and published in the public interest.
Those minutes show how the Curve Leicester apparently supports their bid for an Arts Council grant, for
an event to be held at Kendrew Barracks in 2014. It is suggest the Committee made up of the same old elite
I hope the Arts Council do proper checks before granting any large amount of public money. Especially when the minutes also suggest the committee might like to hide some of the income from ticket sales.
After publishing this post, I expect Leicestershire's Detective Sergeant Mc Donald to be reminded of his comment
"you should not interfere in local politics"
It seems to me Leicestershire Police needs some political training and keep their nose out of local politics.
Politics is meant to be for all not just the rotten elite of this town and county.
