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Holy Moly. 500 criminal convictions under review.
Hats off to the Daily Mail who appear to have got one of the biggest scoops of this extraordinary story so far. The Post Office has set up a review of “around” 500 of its successful prosecutions OUTSIDE those already lodged with the Criminal Cases Review Commisision. 500! That is criminalisation on industrial scale. The…
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Request: were you questioned by the Post Office’s investigations unit?
Help request – investigations interviews Hello secret emailers This particular missive is only going to be of interest to certain respondents, so if you weren’t ever a Postmaster or Post Office employee, you can stop reading here and enjoy the rest of your Easter weekend. I am after some information for a series I’m working…
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Fire up the lawyers
Hello secret emailers Since December quite a few people have approached me asking for advice. Asking a journalist for advice is usually a terrible idea, but I do sympathise with the predicament many people find themselves in. My respondents broadly fall into three categories: a) those who have just heard about the group litigation and…
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Van den Bogerd rides again
Morning secret emailers! I hope you are well. Our next door neighbour has lost his sense of smell. This is a symptom of Covid-19 so he is going into isolation to see if those symptoms develop further. They have also run out of washing up liquid, so yesterday I went and put some on his…
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Private Eye special report on the Post Office OUT TODAY
Private Eye special report out today! Hi all Just to let you know the Private Eye special report into the Post Office is out today. I wrote it with Eye staffer Richard Brooks who has done some great work on this story over the years. It was he who first suggested a special and got…
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That was the week that was
All eyes on 23 April Earlier today I posted up my final court report for this week – The Opposed Appeals. The rest of my Friday has been spent dealing with the life admin that court days force you to put on hold. As mentioned yesterday, the judgment will be handed down on Friday 23…
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39 Subpostmasters cases referred to Court of Appeal
39 convictions go through to appeal Morning all A brief heads up on the news – 39 Post Office cases sitting with the Criminal Cases Review Commission have now been referred to the court of appeal. This is a historic day – as the chair of the CCRC says: “This is by some distance the…
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First payments land, CCRC decision tomorrow, PO postpones compensation
CCRC decides… Hello secret emailers I will try to keep this short: The CCRC is going to make its decision about referring its cohort of Subpostmaster cases tomorrow. As soon as I get the decision, I’ll put it on twitter, then write it up for the blog, then tweet the link to that, then alert…
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Panorama postponed, Select Committee hearing cancelled
Panorama postponed and more… Hello secret emailers I was meant to be spending today touring the BBC’s broadcast studios, telling the nation about tonight’s Panorama. Sadly “Scandal at the Post Office” has lost its slot. Coronavirus is in. We are postponed, not cancelled. The best guess is that we might get a window some time…
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Post Office debate in parliament this afternoon, Panorama news…
The Post Office Commons debate Hi all After sterling work in the commons from Kate Osborne (asking the PM the relevant questions) and Lucy Allan (leading a Westminster Hall debate), it’s time for the chaps to step up. This afternoon Kevan Jones and Andrew Bridgen will host a debate in the main chamber of the…