Hi!

A quick email before tomorrow’s recusal hearing to let you know I have written a piece on the shredding that the National Federation of Subpostmasters got in the recent judgment:

Common issues judgment: the NFSP

As I say at the bottom of the piece I am looking for stories about the NFSP – specifically your experience at the hands of their reps, both bad and good.

If you are or were an NFSP rep or still work for the organisation you are welcome to pen a post about your efforts to deal with the Horizon problem. As you will see from my blog post I tried to get the NFSP leadership to engage with me over the judge’s criticisms. They don’t want to.

I would like www.postofficetrial.com to become a repository for first hand accounts from every angle of the Horizon saga, and the role (or lack of a role) the NFSP has taken has not been sufficiently explored. Please please write in. I will give you both confidentiality and anonymity if that’s what you want, and I will not publish anything with anyone’s name attached without express permission.

Thanks

I know I say it a lot, but thanks to everyone for the recent correspondence – I do now feel I am getting information from all sides. This is really helpful when it comes to developing an informed perspective.

I am grateful for confidential nuggets and documentation, anything you want to send me, but please bear in mind my ultimate aim is to publish. There’s no point in being a journalist if all I do is sit on a load of information I’m not able to do anything with. It’s fun, but it’s not very productive.

If there is something you want to say or you can pass to me that you think should be in the public domain, just hit reply and we can discuss how best to do it. As I have said many times before – I don’t disclose my sources and I don’t publish without express permission and a discussion of the potential risks.

This litigation will be steaming along into the 2020s. The claimants’ funders can cut their losses and turn the tap off at any time. The Post Office can spend as much as they like. All four trial judgments could end up in the appeal court and I suspect they will find a way to take it to the Supreme Court. A public discussion will end it quicker.

Till tomorrow!

Nick