Wyn Williams
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 73 |
| Date of birth | March 31,1951 |
| Zodiac sign | Aries |
| Born | Ferndale |
| United Kingdom | |
| Education | Corpus Christi College |
| Position | President of Welsh Tribunals since 2017 |
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| ID | 3362540 |
Wyn Williams Life story
Sir Wyn Lewis Williams, FLSW is a Welsh judge who is the President of Welsh Tribunals. He had been a High Court judge from 2007 until his retirement on 10 February 2017.
Post Office scandal: Call for full and fair compensation
... Sir Wyn Williams said schemes set up to compensate sub-postmasters wrongly accused of crimes was a " patchwork quilt with some holes in it"...
Post Office bosses told to repay mistaken bonuses
... And when the Post Office s annual report for 2021-22 was published, it said the target of finishing the inquiry had been " achieved" with " confirmation from Sir Wyn Williams, " the inquiry chairman - which was wrong...
Horizon scandal: Post Office boss to pay back part of bonus
... They also wrongly said inquiry chairman Sir Wyn Williams had approved bonuses relating to that support...
'We haven't had a single penny from the Post Office'
... The inquiry will hear from government, Post Office and legal representatives, after its chairman Sir Wyn Williams said in September he was " disappointed with the apparent lack of substantial progress to date"...
Post Office and Fujitsu to face inquiry over Horizon scandal
... The chair of the inquiry, Sir Wyn Williams, said the evidence he heard through the spring and summer had made a deep impression on him...
UK to fully compensate postmasters who exposed scandal
... ScandalThe new compensation scheme comes as High Court judge Sir Wyn Williams leads a public inquiry into the Post Office scandal, which has heard testimonies from Post Office staff, some of which were wrongly accused or convicted of crimes they didn t commit...
Post Office scandal: Former Post Office manager describes 'hell'
... Led by retired High Court judge Sir Wyn Williams, the inquiry is beginning with six weeks of testimony from former Post Office staff, describing the devastating impact the false accusations have had on them and their families...
Post Office scandal ruined lives, inquiry hears
... In his opening remarks, Sir Wyn Williams, the retired High Court judge who is leading the inquiry, expressed thanks to the 50 to 60 witnesses he expects to hear oral evidence from in the coming weeks...
Post Office scandal: Former Post Office manager describes 'hell'
A former Post Office branch manager has described the " hell" of when he was wrongly charged and convicted of stealing £65,000.
William Graham worked His Way up through the Post Office over years, having started there as a trainee.
Speaking to an inquiry on Wednesday, He Said he used to be " The Life and soul of the party".
He eventually became a Post Office manager in Sevenoaks, But was convicted of false accounting in 2011.
A new IT System , installed at post offices across the country, was to blame for accounting errors at hundreds of different locations.
Initially, Mr Graham said the discrepancies were small and he often topped up The Balance himself.
" It was a case of taking money out of my wallet and putting it into the Post Office , " He Said , adding that soon he couldn't afford it, with the shortfall on One Day showing up as £5,000.
Mr Graham was later given a 32-week Suspended prison sentence after shortfalls of £65,000 were incorrectly identified.
" When they said the 32 weeks in prison, The Gap before they said it was Suspended - I could hear My Wife scream, " Mr Graham said.
Between 2000 and 2014, More Than 700 subpostmasters and mistresses were accused of theft, fraud and false accounting in The Most widespread miscarriage of justice in British Legal History .
The Inquiry - which is expected to run for the rest of this Year - Will look at whether the Post Office knew about faults in the IT System , called Horizon, and Will also ask how staff were left to shoulder the blame. The software was developed by Japanese company Fujitsu.
'You want some sort of justice'Visibly emotional, Mr Graham told The Inquiry on Wednesday he was later diagnosed with depression and says he felt " worthless" not being able to provide for His Family .
Like other victims, he told The Inquiry of the difficulty in finding a job after The Charge .
He was forced to take unpaid work in a charity shop, then asked to take a job in retailer " Build a Bear". His debt increased and The Family home was threatened with repossession.
He says he now hopes for some compensation from the Post Office , as well as further information.
" I want them to find out what went wrong, what caused the problems with The System . . Surely they've got to come forward and tell us what went wrong?
" I've gone through far less than a lot of People . . But for all of us, you want some sort of justice. "
The Post Office has previously said it is " sincerely sorry for the impact of the Horizon scandal on the lives of victims and their families and We Are in No Doubt about the human cost".
" In addressing The Past , our first priority is that full, fair and final compensation is provided and We Are making good progress, " it added.
'My Life got Torn Apart 'A former subpostmaster wrongly convicted in The Scandal told The Inquiry on Wednesday that he wants to see " someone go to prison".
Harjinder Butoy's conviction was, after he spent years in prison for A Crime he did not commit.
" My Life got Torn Apart , " Mr Butoy said. The Inquiry heard he had to declare bankruptcy and move His Family for fear of their safety after his imprisonment.
Mr Butoy and his wife ran the Post Office in the Nottinghamshire market town of Sutton-in-Ashfield for five years.
" I actually enjoyed working there on The Shop side. My Wife and I bought it as a run-down business and did it up and had a good relationship with The Public . "
But he described problems with accounts cropping up as early as his first week in The Role .
" There were discrepancies every week, " He Said , beginning at £5 or £10.
He says he used to keep money on the side to Make Up any short-falls, But once they escalated to £100 or £200, he asked for help But got " no interest" from the helpdesk he contacted.
Mr Butoy and his wife did not suspect anything was wrong when auditors turned up to check on the accounts. They had passed another audit the week before with no issues.
But Mr Butoy was arrested, charged and sent to jail for stealing £208,000.
He described feeling " ashamed" being led out of his Post Office in front of customers. Mr Butoy also lost More Than six stone during his Time In prison, due to the immense stress he was under.
Led by retired High Court judge Sir Wyn Williams , The Inquiry is beginning with Six Weeks of testimony from former Post Office staff, describing the devastating impact the false accusations have had on them and their families.
The Inquiry Will also examine whether staff at software firm Fujitsu, which developed the Horizon software to complete tasks such as transactions, accounting and stocktaking, knew The System had flaws while data from it was used In Court to convict sub-postmasters.
Source of news: bbc.com
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