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Episode 3 today: I Love My Post Office
Sarah’s harrowing story Morning all I hope you don’t mind me sending you daily secret emails whilst the Radio 4 series is on air. Today’s features Sarah Burgess Boyde, a former Subpostmaster from Newcastle. As you will know if you have been listening to the first two episodes, former Subpostmaster Jo Hamilton has told us…
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The Bloodiest Mind in Wales
Enter Alan Morning secret emailers It appears I am now in the habit of rising early, something I developed whilst putting the Great Post Office Trial series together in order just to get the work done. This morning I am prepping to go on BBC London to give an update to listeners about the wider…
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900 prosecutions since 1999 – nine hundred!!!!
A scandal you can see from space As you will have heard if you were listening to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning, the Post Office is now looking at 900 prosecutions it has made since 1999 involving Horizon data. Unbelievable. I’ve done the number-crunching and full story for you here. Thanks…
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Hitting the GPOT – press previews in the Times and Guardian
Press preview Morning all – not an epic email today – just a link to a couple of press previews from Saturday’s papers which have been sent my way. You can read what Saturday’s Guardian and Times think of the Great Post Office Trial series here. If you spot any other previews in today’s or…
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The Great Post Office Trial begins on Monday
The Great Post Office Trial Hello there On Monday at 1.45pm a ten part series called The Great Post Office Trial begins on Radio 4. I have heard the first three episodes, which have now been delivered to the BBC. The first features Jo Hamilton, the second is about Alan Bates and the third highlights…
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The Great Post Office Trial on BBC Radio 4 starts a week today
The countdown begins Hello secret email contingent Work has been continuing apace to finish the ten-part documentary I am making with Whistledown Productions for BBC Radio 4. It is a landmark series (Whistledown only do landmark series) and I hope it has some effect. If you’re not already an avid Radio 4 listener, now is…
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A mixed bag of goodies
Hello secret email friends I hope you are all keeping well. There is a lot to tell you. First – the Radio 4 series I have been going on about for a while has got a listing on the BBC website. Yes I know the magic disappearing Panorama got a listing on the BBC website…
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Settlements, solicitors and schemes
Hello! I hope you are keeping well. I had a frankly horrible week last week working 12 – 14 hour days trying to do several complicated things. As you may know from reading my tweets, the inspirational teacher of my son’s primary school was defenestrated by his employers last year on the back of what…
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Chirag’s story
Hello friends Chirag Sidphura (pictured above) is going to become an interesting player in the Post Office story. He suffered a £57,000 discrepancy at his Farncombe branch in 2017 – after the closing date for applications to the High Court group litigation. He was sacked but not prosecuted. Rather than walk away Chirag has continued…
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Holy Moly. 500 criminal convictions under review.
Hats off to the Daily Mail who appear to have got one of the biggest scoops of this extraordinary story so far. The Post Office has set up a review of “around” 500 of its successful prosecutions OUTSIDE those already lodged with the Criminal Cases Review Commisision. 500! That is criminalisation on industrial scale. The…
