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March 2019
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Horizon trial 19 March secret email – Miscarriages of Justice
Into the Horizone Good morning secret emailers I had just about run out of gas yesterday evening when a secret emailer contacted and me and noted I hadn’t written anything about what she considered the biggest revelation of the day. She was completely right. In my defence I did tweet it when it came up,…
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Horizon trial day 5 – Into the Horizone
Okay – the blog post review of today’s events is up! Into the Horizone The (very readable) transcript is up! The morning’s tweets are here! The après midi tweetisaussons are here… And I’m not going to spend the remaining part of my evening scanning in Angela van den Bogerd’s witness statement because they refuse to…
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Horizon trial secret email 18 March – Angela van den Bogerd
Morning Angela van den Bogerd is being cross-examined in court today. On Friday the judge ruled of Mrs van den Bogerd’s evidence in the Common Issues trial: “she did not give me frank evidence, and sought to obfuscate matters, and mislead me.” He goes on to spell out how. Misleading a judge on oath in…
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Horizon trial secret email 16 March – The Post Office witnesses
Hello all I’m doing a close reading of the judgment and posting up choice chunks on the postofficetrial.com I would urge you to have a look at Part 3 of this series, which is about the Post Office witnesses, particularly Angela van den Bogerd, a Post Office director. The judge has ruled that he will…
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Horizon trial secret email 15 March – He did it
He really did. That was quite something to witness. Tears in the courtroom, broad smiles outside. Happy claimants, happy lawyers and several television cameras out there to record it for posterity. I am contracted to ITV News for today which will save you some money, but may slow down my progress in getting information out…
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Horizon trial secret email 15 March – Judgment hour
Morning! I’ll keep this brief as I need to be in court shortly. The judgment of the Common Issues trial will be handed down by the judge in Court 26 at noon. My 12.30pm live on ITV News will has been cancelled due to the sad events in New Zealand. However I suspect, depending on…
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Horizon trial day 4 – a day of two halves
Hello friends Tomorrow’s going to be interesting isn’t it? The 180,000 word judgment is handed down tomorrow at noon. At 12.30pm I am going to be doing a live report for ITV News outside the Rolls Building on its contents. I’ve packed my highlighter. Here are the links to all of today’s goodies: Day 4…
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Urgent filming request
Do you have a Post Office? or access to one? Would you be able to let a broadcast news organisation come to your Post Office and film your Horizon terminal and possibly your Post Office? If so, please reply to this email with your mobile phone number and I’ll forward it to the people involved.…
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Horizon trial secret email 14 March
Horizon trial day 3 preview Hey hey secret emailers Despite my runny nose I woke up in a good mood this morning. There’s lots of work to be done, but we’re heading towards the end of the week and a first trial judgment, unless the Post Office manage to stick a spanner in the works,…
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Horizon trial day 3 – Patny, Burke and Roll
Patny, Burke and (above) Richard Roll Hello secret emailers Before I start letting you delve into the links, let’s first drop the big news. The Common Issues trial judgment is due at noon on Friday. The judge said today he was on track to deliver it and then casually mentioned it is 180,000 words long.…