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2023
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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…
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Lord Arbuthnot: “I feel we are heading in the right direction”
and the podcast is back! Hi there As promised, I have two new pieces of content for you. The first is a short Q&A with Lord (James) Arbuthnot covering where we are now and what he wants to see from the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. As well as campaigning for…
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Sir Wyn delivers Interim Report on compensation
and a parliamentary call for Read’s sacking Hi everyone It’s been a busy few days involving quite a bit of work and travel, so forgive me for not posting this until now. I got a call yesterday asking if I’d go to Salford to sit on the BBC Breakfast sofa with former Subpostmaster Lee Castleton…
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Inquiry thrown into chaos by Post Office disclosure failures
Plus – Flinders on Fire and full Nick Read iv Last night, those of us looking forward to seeing the Post Office Inquiry get underway this week were surprised to see an email from the Inquiry drop in our inboxes. It told us that due to the Post Office’s failure to disclose documents in good…