Grim testimony, indexing the blog and judgment “update”

Hi secret emailers.

Hope you are well. I’ve just posted up a complete horror story on the blog and sent it to you via email. It’s about a woman who was charged with false accounting by the Post Office.

She overdosed and died thinking criminal charges were hanging over her. According to a later investigation by her partner, the Post Office had dropped the charges before she died, but allegedly hadn’t bothered to tell her. It’s hard to know where to start with a story like that, but it made me cycle from disbelief, to anger, to despair. I can’t imagine what it must be to go through something like that.

My thanks to Phil Cowan for relating his experience. If you want to write about what happened to you, or you are not a (former) Subpostmasters and want to write a blog post about an element of this class action, just press reply.

Thanks to all those who have sent me their stories and are waiting for me to put them up. I’m trying to do this without dipping into the crowdfunding pot, so it’s slow progress. Do keep them coming though!

Indexing

I am taking steps to better index the blog so navigating it becomes easier.

On the desktop version, below the main image, you will see links to:

About

Latest post

1st trial

Victim testimony

Articles

Timeline

Expert comment

which if they aren’t self-explanatory I’m not doing my job properly.

I am also trying to post lots of relevant links at the bottom of each blog post so you can navigate to other stories on the blog fairly seamlessly. Do have a look at the post office trial website and let me know how you get on. And please do forward these emails (or more pertinently the victim testimonies, which as many people as possible should read) to anyone you think might be interested.

Judgment update

Just to repeat it definitely won’t be out until February, but I’m no closer to knowing exactly when. I am suspecting it will be very early Feb, but as you will know from my previous guesstimate, I have been wrong before. Given the judgment will not be handed down before next week’s Case Management Conference it’s going to make for an interesting session. The judge may give some hints as to his findings if the discussions stray into that territory. The claimants’ and defendant may even have embargoed judgments by that stage. The judge may decide that anything said in relation to the judgment isn’t reportable until it is formally handed down. Not that I want to give him ideas.

Have a great weekend.

Nick