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December 2022
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“Desperate” serving Subpostmaster pens letter to Post Office CEO, Nick Read
Also: no inquiry news before Christmas Hi there I wanted to put up this story last week, but it would have got swallowed up by the compensation hearing. It’s an open letter from a serving Subpostmaster to the Post Office CEO. Of course, a lot of those who weren’t done by Horizon were done by…
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Subpostmaster special compensation hearing report: achieving little, slowly
Show them some money It is the final humiliation. Years after being hounded out of their life-savings and livelihoods, years after beings shunned by their communities, and in many cases their own families, the finally victorious, finally vindicated Subpostmasters are finding out a brutal truth. Justice is a miserable, fleeting thing. When Alan Bates, his…
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BEIS announces details of compensation scheme for the 492
Compensation calling Hi There has been a flurry of activity this morning over compensation for Subpostmasters as the government announced details of a scheme which will hopefully get the 492 (the 555 minus those with quashed/unquashed criminal convictions who will go into the overturned compensation scheme if/when their convictions are overturned). The structure of the…
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Phase 2 of the inquiry comes to a close with some draw-dropping evidence from the NFSP
Both ends of the telescope Good morning I’m meant to be writing about Johnny Depp, so I will try to keep this brief! Over the weekend I posted up two very different stories: 1) Lisa Kear’s harrowing tale of trying to run a Post Office, which eventually broke her, financially and mentally, in November 2019.…