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Round up of the week that was
Plus: Horizon error log Good evening I feel a little embarrassed – it is lovely to have so many new secret emailers join up over the last week. Unfortunately the amount of Post Office-related content and output I have managed to put together over the last few days has been limited. As regular readers of…
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Scandal phase 3: Urgent Question in parliament and TWO investigations announced
Plus: Ismay on the stand Hello everyone Today, former Post Office exec Rod Ismay was on the stand giving evidence at the Inquiry. You can watch it here and read what I have to say about his evidence yesterday here in: Rod Ismay: the useful idiot The Independent has written up the same evidence as…
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Business department demands apology from Post Office CEO
It’s all over Hi We are now in stage three of this scandal. The first was the period when the Post Office was prosecuting innocent people for crimes they didn’t commit. That was 2000 to 2013. Then we entered the cover-up phase when the Post Office knew it likely had criminalised innocent people but had…
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Venal. Incompetent. Mendacious.
More false accounts Hi everyone The quickest of quick notes. I received an astounding email at 5.41pm yesterday afternoon, and quickly dashed off a quick tweet thread (in something of a blue funk, so please forgive the tone), which you can read here on one simple webpage. Basically the Post Office decided something stupid and…
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Absence of evidence….
Media activity and new blog post Hi everyone Another very quick note to alert you to a new blog post covering a specific section of former Fujitsu engineer Anne Chambers’ evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry. Read it here. Gareth Jenkins (the other known former Fujitsu engineer under criminal investigation) is now not…
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Chewing over Yet Another Compensation Hearing – podcast out now
Moorhead, Lacey and Nicholson hold forth Hi everyone I couldn’t attend the Post Office Horizon IT Compensation Hearing on Thursday but I have now had a chance to look through the YouTube video, read the transcript and chew everything over with one person who has done the same as me and two more people who…
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Big compensation hearing tomorrow, get a job examining the scandal…
And Noel Thomas publishes a book! Hi everyone The Inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal is gearing up for another important stage. Over the next 22 days we’ll have another compensation hearing (tomorrow), followed by four days of evidence from the only two people we know to be under police investigation – Anne…
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The GLO compensation scheme debacle
And the slow conviction-quashing concern… But first (hello, by the way), an announcement: I have put together three crowdfunding campaigns to aid my reporting of the Post Office Horizon scandal. The first, in 2018, allowed me to report the Bates v Post Office High Court action. The second, in 2021, covered my reporting of the…
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Moorheard evsicerates the Altman Review, new podcast discusses Fujitsu’s “scamming Patels”…
And Lee Castleton wants names named Hi there Forgive the delay in alerting you to a new Investigating the Post Office scandal podcast episode which “dropped” (as the cool kids say) on Wednesday. We were honoured to be joined by Varchas Patel, son of Vipin Patel, who was one of the first six Subpostmasters to…
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Why hasn’t Fujitsu sacked Andy Dunks?
And why did it mislead Parliament? Hi there The second part of Phase 3 of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry has come to a close. There is so much I could write about (and have written about), but the thing which always makes me twitchy about this scandal is accountability, or the institutional and…
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