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The Day of the Extraordinary Documents: Perkins part deux
Hmm. And…? I love the above screengrab. It shows a visibly bored Alice Perkins listening to (and intermittently dismissing) the questions of Chris Jacobs, a barrister representing more than a hundred Subpostmasters at the Inquiry yesterday. Whilst Perkins was respectful to Jason Beer KC (process) and helpful to Sir Wyn Williams (authority), when it came…
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My understanding of it is completely right from my point of view – Perkins plots her course
Watching Alice Morning! Yesterday former Post Office Chair Alice Perkins gave evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry. I have given her testimony write up here. Despite giving us plenty to chew over, there wasn’t a strong top line, which is why most journalists had a slightly different favoured quote. Here are a selection:…
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General Bates on manoeuvres, a long Day at the Inquiry and a Perkins Preview
Dull Day: Tedious Chris has nothing to say I had low hopes. Though I was surprised to be the only journalist in the room (I think). I kind of suspected Mr Day would not have much to say, even so, a stunning document might surface, never to be seen or heard of again. Reader, it…
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Post Office Inquiry update: today’s hearing has been postponed due to illness
Sir Wyn Williams adjourns until tomorrow I had driven to the station, parked up, bought my ticket and was idly checking my emails when I saw the inquiry hearing was not going to happen today. Given my 13yo son was going to be home alone on an inset day, this isn’t necessarily the worst news,…
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Post Office Inquiry: Phase 5&6 part 2 restarts today at High Noon with current Post Office General Counsel feeling the heat
On the front Foat Good morning! If I’ve got this right today will see the second appearance of Ben Foat at the Inquiry with the publication of his fifth witness statement. He first gave evidence on 4 July last year and was due to make another appearance on 5 September, but was stood down by…
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Post Office Inquiry: What did Vennells really do, and why?
plus: Bath Festival talk Hi there I’m on my way back to Surrey after a quick trip to Somerset to take part in the Bath Festival. It was a privilege to spend some time with former Post Office manager Nicki Arch and her husband Steve, Rebecca Thomson (who broke the story about the Post Office…
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Post Office Horizon Offences Act becomes law – hundreds of convictions instantly quashed
plus: Vennells Day 2 Morning everyone. I’ve written three blog posts in the last 12 hours which doesn’t give me much time to do more than tell you about them. 1) It’s a(n) historic day. The Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Act has become law. Read about it here. 2) Vennells admits cover up. I…
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Post Office Inquiry: Cold Mess – Vennells’ first day of evidence reviewed
The penny starts to drop Morning everyone Hope you are okay. The Paula Vennells dumpster fire was towed into town (by electric car – watch the media scrum here) yesterday and girl was it bad. It was worse than I thought. She was worse than I thought. For example, Vennells revealed that for some reason,…
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Post Office Inquiry today: Paula Vennells questioned for the first time in 9 years
plus: Lyons’ blindness and Caring Hugh Alwen Lyons is clearly a bright and capable woman. She wanted to do good things with her time on this earth and yet she spent her entire career at a company which destroyed the lives of hundreds if not thousands of people. Whilst she was there. Whilst she was…
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Post Office Inquiry: Stalking Lyons, Moorhead vs Clarke and lots of Paula previews
Today’s mane event I had yet another one of those moments this morning when I went to save a blog post, messed it up and lost more than half my work. When will I learn to write my stuff on a WP document and not in a web browser? Anyway – I remembered most of…
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