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Post Office Inquiry – bonus for lying exec
Angela the Automaton Morning all. I’m going to have to get quicker at writing on-the-day copy. I find it the hardest element of being a journalist because it’s the thing I’ve done the least. Yesterday’s session was done before 4pm and I didn’t file to the website before 10pm. Analysing the evidence, picking the “best”…
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Post Office rewarded director after she lied in court
Damning evidence about the culture within the Post Office at the very highest level was brought to light during the course of Angela van den Bogerd’s second and likely final day of evidence at the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry today. You can read my live-tweets and see the screenshots of documents posted up during…
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What’s really going on with the Subpostmaster compensation schemes pt. 2
In Part 1 of this short series I quoted at length from a letter written to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry on 9 Jan 2024, by the barrister Paul Marshall. That blog post covered Mr Marshall’s concerns about Subpostmaster claimants in the Bates v Post Office High Court litigation with overturned criminal convictions. The…
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Post Office Scandal: Prime Minister announces plans to quash ALL (subject to Ts & Cs) Post Office convictions
Extraordinary people telling their stories Hello, good afternoon and welcome to our new joiners. It’s good to have you on board. We start with some breaking news. Rishi Sunak has just announced that the government is going to attempt to get the majority of Subpostmaster convictions in England and Wales quashed. This is the breaking…
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The three biggest Post Office scandal news lines to come out this week
Well That Was Quite A Week Hello there, I had no idea Mr Bates vs The Post Office would take off in the way it did. We are all reeling at the attention it has got. Goodness me. If you haven’t seen it yet – it’s definitely worth a watch. You can find it on…
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Gary’s years of hurt
Let’s have a look at another one of the frontline plods who made it their business to investigate Subpostmasters and recommend them (or not) for prosecution based on what, at times, seems to be imaginary evidence. Gary Thomas (and this will shock you) started his career in the Post Office as a counter clerk, rising…
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Business department demands apology from Post Office CEO
It’s all over Hi We are now in stage three of this scandal. The first was the period when the Post Office was prosecuting innocent people for crimes they didn’t commit. That was 2000 to 2013. Then we entered the cover-up phase when the Post Office knew it likely had criminalised innocent people but had…
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False Accounts – London run approaches
The London run of False Accounts – a satirical play about the Post Office Horizon scandal by the Outcasts Creative theatre group – starts its one week run on 1 November. It has attracted quite a bit of interest from many people directly affected by what happened, some of whom have been kind enough to…
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Chirag Sidhpura’s Closing Statement
I watched Chirag Sidhpura give evidence today. You can read about his story here, and in the live-tweets I put together whilst he was talking. At the end Chirag read out a prepared statement, which he has kindly shared with me (whilst also showing me how to work my new phone). Chirag is an extraordinarily…
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More conviction quashings and a disturbing ministerial briefing
Civil servants say unions heart Horizon A Freedom of Information request about civil servant briefings to Jo Swinson about the Post Office Horizon system when took up her ministerial post at the Business department has unearthed an interesting document. BEIS says the document was written for Jo Swinson between August and November 2012. In it…