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Sir Alan Settles – for how much?!
Read More…: Sir Alan Settles – for how much?!On 23 October 2003, the North Wales Weekly News published a letter from Alan Bates, the sacked Postmaster at Craig-y-Don Post Office near Llandudno. In his letter, Alan railed against the behaviour of the Post Office, its Horizon computer system and apologised to his customers that their village branch had closed. “I can assure everyone I will not give up on this issue” said Alan, “whether it takes three months or three years.” It took 22 years. Today Sir Alan Bates settled his claim against the Post Office. Sir Alan refused his first compensation offer in January 2024, saying it…
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Restorative Justice Council Subpostmaster report pt 1 arrives
Read More…: Restorative Justice Council Subpostmaster report pt 1 arrivesIn July this year, as part of Volume 1 of his final report, the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry chair Sir Wyn Williams required Fujitsu, the government and the Post Office to deliver a report “outlining any agreed programme of restorative justice and/or actions taken by that date to produce such a programme.” The Post Office, the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and Fujitsu outsourced this work to the Restorative Justice Council (RJC) which, in September, set about interviewing as many Subpostmasters and their families as it could. The results can be read in: “Rebuilding Trust: The First Step Toward…
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Police spend £7.2m on PO investigation in 5 years, interviewing 4 people
Read More…: Police spend £7.2m on PO investigation in 5 years, interviewing 4 peopleThe police have spent £7,246,000 since 2020 investigating possible crimes committed by Post Office and Fujitsu execs relating to the Horizon scandal. In five years the detectives working for Operation Olympos have conducted a total of seven interviews with four people. No arrests have been made. The investigation began shortly after the judge in the Bates v Post Office high court litigation announced he had such “grave concern” at the evidence given by Fujitsu employees in criminal and civil cases against Subpostmasters, and he was passing a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions. This he did, and the DPP…
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Now at least thirteen suicides directly linked to Post Office Scandal
Read More…: Now at least thirteen suicides directly linked to Post Office ScandalPart one of Sir Wyn Williams’ report into the Post Office Horizon scandal has landed. He makes a total of nineteen recommendations, crunches a number of significant figures and as per the headline to this piece, reveals the number of lives lost as a direct result of this scandal. Dealing with the most significant statistic first, in March this year, Sir Wyn Williams asked the Post Office to tell him how many people they know appear to have taken their own lives “as a consequence of Horizon showing an illusory shortfall in branch accounts”. Williams asked the Post Office for…
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Nick Gould “removed from professional duties following serious concerns”
Read More…: Nick Gould “removed from professional duties following serious concerns”Aria Grace Law have issued a longer statement, following a piece I published about Nick Gould on Friday. It’s worth reading in full. Formal Statement from Aria Grace Law CIC We issue this statement in response to the article published by Mr Nick Wallis on 6 June 2025 concerning Mr Nick Gould and the legal services he claims to have provided to former clients of Aria Grace Law, including Ms Seema Misra. Aria Grace Law CIC was founded to uphold integrity, transparency, and the rights of those failed by institutions. The matters reported are deeply concerning and require a clear…
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Lawyer threatens legal action against victim of Horizon scandal
Read More…: Lawyer threatens legal action against victim of Horizon scandalA victim of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, Seema Misra, has been threatened with legal action over a £60,000 bill by one of her former lawyers, Nick Gould. Gould worked pro bono (for free) with the barristers Flora Page and Paul Marshall, doing the groundwork in 2020 on Seema’s successful appeal against her conviction for theft in April 2021. Gould also helped ensure Janet Skinner and Tracy Felstead’s convictions* got quashed at the same hearing by doing a lot of the spadework with Page and Marshall in 2020. In the immediate aftermath of the appeal hearing in 2021, Nick…
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Post Office CEO allegedly sought to put back redress target to secure bonus
Read More…: Post Office CEO allegedly sought to put back redress target to secure bonusJane Davies, the former Chief People Officer at the Post Office claims that Post Office management, led by CEO Nick Read, attempted to delay a key compensation target date in order to ensure they qualified for a bonus. Ms Davies said “changing this target would result in slower compensation payments, in favour of paying a bonus”. According to Jane Davies’ witness statement to the Post Office Inquiry, the demand came on Davies’ first day of work at the Post Office – 2 Dec 2022. Read sent an email to Davies’ predecessor, Angela Williams, and copied Davies in. Read wanted Williams…
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Closing statements: Day 2 – Circular Firing Squad
Read More…: Closing statements: Day 2 – Circular Firing SquadThere were some good points made today, but the main one was a big shrug – “not me, mate”. In this blog post I’m going to focus on what was said by the various core participants’ barristers. For more on what it was like to be there and why there’s a basket full of chocolate brussel sprouts on the Inquiry ante-room island, please subscribe to my newsletter (details below or here), which I’ll aim to get out tomorrow. For the first time in a while, the hearing room was full, with a decent complement of journalists, lots of Subpostmasters, lawyers…
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Closing statements: Day 1
Read More…: Closing statements: Day 1The hearing room was packed today as Subpostmasters, their supporters, lawyers, journalists and members of the public attended a long day of submissions at Aldwych House in London. First out of the blocks was Ed Henry KC who sought to draw the line of conspiracy upwards through the executive to the Post Office board. Henry spoke of the Post Office’s “inveterate contempt” for Subpostmasters, its “corrosive prejudice” against them and said the former Chair Alice Perkins with her henchman Chief Executive Paula Vennells knew exactly what they were doing: “They wanted to keep the lid on it, and the lawyers…
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New book now on pre-sale: The Great Post Office Cover-Up
Read More…: New book now on pre-sale: The Great Post Office Cover-UpUPDATE on 2 June 2025: all limited edition SIGNED hardbacks have now sold out. You can still pre-buy a hardback for £15 +P&P below (which will be cheaper than the publication price), but it won’t be part of the signed and numbered limited editions. Thanks to everyone who put their money down. Hopefully you’ll have something in your hands by the end of this year! ORIGINAL POST FOLLOWS: I am delighted to announce I have struck a deal with Bath Publishing’s new-ish Cinto imprint to write another book about the Post Office scandal. This one will be called The Great…
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