Chris Aujard answered questions at the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry yesterday. The day before, he resigned as General Counsel for five separate companies, and the day before that, he chucked it in at another. Is it mere coincidence he ceased to be an active director of any UK company within 48 hours of giving…
Chris Aujard presents as thoughtful, intelligent and professional – a very different person to the one boasting about his crisis management skills shortly after leaving the Post Office in 2015. Older and wiser, perhaps, or better at image projection. Aujard was involved in a deliberate attempt to frustrate Second Sight’s independent investigation into the Post…
Susan Crichton cut a sorry figure at the Inquiry today. A woman apparently trying to do the right thing, but not trying hard enough. A woman whose stated intentions were not borne out (and occasionally downright contradicted) by the documentary evidence. A woman who came up against a company board more interested in reputation management…
I’ve been talking a lot recently about Second Sight’s Interim Report, written by Ron Warmington and Ian Henderson. It is a game-changing, short, easy-to-read document, released on 8 July 2013 which sets out all of the Post Office’s problems to them in clear language. It used to be published on the Post Office website, but…
This is Penny Williams. Penny ran the Manaccan Post Office in Cornwall between 2007 and 2013. I have just come off stage with Penny at Launceston Town Hall where she spoke about her experiences at the hands of the Post Office. During our conversation, Penny revealed she has paper evidence of what appears to be…
The former MP who started the Parliamentary campaign to help Subpostmasters in their fight for justice, gave evidence at the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal on Wednesday. James Arbuthnot told inquiry he was first alerted to potential problems with the Horizon system during a coffee morning in his constituency, in 2009,…
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Welcome! This page features all the upcoming dates for my talk: “Post Office Scandal – the Inside Story”. The presentation features a full history of the scandal – how it happened, who was responsible and provides some insight into the personal stories of those directly affected. I’ll also bring you up to speed on the…
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35: Ep35 – Paul Scully MP, former Post Office minister – Investigating the Post Office Scandal
In which Nick interviews the former Post Office minister about his experience of taking office in the weeks after the Bates v Post Office settlement, overseeing the establishment of the Post Office Horizon Inquiry and the various compensation schemes.
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,…
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.…
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…
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…
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)…
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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