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Calling former Subpostmasters, managers and Post Office employees…
Exeter University needs you Professor Richard Moorhead will be known to some of you. He writes a well-regarded legal ethics blog (“Lawyer Watch”) and a free substack site dedicated to matters arising from the Post Office Horizon scandal. He is also a member of the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board. In addition to this Prof Moorhead…
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The Stamp of Innocence: Noel’s book is published in English!
Special podcast episode! Hello everyone I am delighted to tell you that the English language version of Noel (and Sian) Thomas’s book The Stamp of Innocence is finally available as an e-book via Amazon. To mark this auspicious occasion, I interview Noel and his ghostwriter Aled Gwyn Jôb about the book and its Welsh language…
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Wendy Cousins: ITV Evening News tonight
A family’s fight Hi everyone Apologies for the radio silence. This is the first in what might be a little flurry of newsletters. I’ve been working on multiple Post Office-related projects which are starting to come to fruition. The piece I mentioned in the last newsletter featuring Wendy Cousins’ family is going out on ITV…
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John Scott: Beam Him Up
Former PO Security chief gives evidence Hi everyone It’s sometimes a little bit too easy to watch the Inquiry at home – listening along on double speed catch up whilst doing household chores or taking notes. I wanted to be in the room today for John Scott – the Post Office’s former Head of Security,…
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Killing with cruelty – the Lee Castleton case
No fun, no games Apologies for troubling you twice in a week. I wasn’t aiming to write much, but I’ve put up two blog posts you might be interested in and there has been quite a bit of journalistic activity elsewhere. Former Post Office auditor, investigator and disclosure officer Helen Rose gave evidence on Tuesday.…
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Govt offers £600,000 compensation to Subpostmasters and Inquiry re-starts today
Offer branded “cruel” by leading KC Hi everyone Hope you are all keeping well. Here is my write up of the govt’s £600k compensation offer to certain Subpostmasters. It’s got links to some relevant information and quotes from various parties. If you’re interested on what happens behind the scenes on a day like yesterday, read…
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Disclosure, datclosure
Hello, Aldwych. And so it was back to Aldwych House in London to see what fresh horrors would be revealed about the Post Office scandal. Today’s hearing, the first after the summer break, was not about who gave which orders to prosecute whom or shred what, nor were we there to find out why Subpostmasters…
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Learn about Shakespeare, get some exercise and raise money for Subpostmasters in need – in just two hours
Thursday 14 September – 6pm – London EC1 Would you like to walk round Shakespeare’s London, in the company of a quite superb and knowledgeable guide? Are you free at 6pm on Thursday 14 September? Can you get to EC1? If so, Ian Fagelson, Anne Page and Jane Anderson (all pictured in the photo above)…
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August Post Office scandal round-up
Quite a lot to tell you about… Hi all Hope you had a good summer. I never thought I might be a guest on Jeremy Kyle. There were no DNA tests, and everyone involved seemed to get on quite well. He’s changed. Jeremy now hosts a current affairs show on Talk TV, and I was…
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Ed Henry KC: “You couldn’t contrive a more ridiculous state of affairs”
Ed Henry on the disclosure debacle, latest from the Inquiry, the Police being Terrible, more CCRC referrals and one strange tale from the archives… Hi everyone The gentleman pictured on the right is Ed Henry KC, who represents a number of Subpostmasters at the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry. I interviewed Ed for the Sunday…