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June 2019
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Meeting the minister
Sorry to send out two secret emails on a non-court day, but for those of you who aren’t on twitter (which I suspect is a majority of secret emailers), you may have missed a couple of things I posted today on www.postofficetrial.com The first is a suitably breathless account of my first experience of meeting…
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Kelly Tolhurst: today in parliament
Hello secret emailers I’m off to Portcullis House today, powered entirely by your donations. I’m spending the morning in the Thatcher Room finding out if the BEIS Select Committee is going to ask Kelly Tolhurst (the Postal Services Minister – pictured above) any questions about the Bates and others v Post Office group litigation and…
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Tracy Felstead: in today’s Daily Mail
Tracy Felstead: thrown in prison aged 19 Morning all – you may remember I was hinting I would be publishing former Post Office worker Tracy Felstead’s story on my blog, and then it all went a bit quiet. Tracy had very kindly agreed to be interviewed for my Post Office vs Mental Health strand about…
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Worden’s Burden – day 20 report and Horizon trial summary
Hello How’s your evening going? Mine’s been spent writing up a load of Words on Worden and other Horizon-related things. That report is here. Today’s transcript is here. Today’s collated tweets are here. Do please have a quick squiz at them if you feel so moved. Court is now not sitting until 1 July for…
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No One Is Getting In A DeLorean
Hello secret emailers Today’s report “No One Is Getting In A DeLorean” is up. You’ll have to read it to find out why it’s called that. I walked out of court with a sense that it was honours even today. The Post Office’s independent IT expert stuck to his guns in the face of a…
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Post Office is today’s Daily Mail front page
Morning secret emailers – just on my way up to court and spotted this DM front page. It’s not about the trial, but it shows the intense interest the Daily Mail is developing in all things Post Office related. You can read the story here. The man behind the story is the Daily Mail’s financial…
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Horizon trial day 18: Enter Dr Robert
Evening all Today was almost comical. Over lunch and for most of the afternoon I could not help wondering what the point of this particular trial actually is. The first one was all about demonstrating the persistent cultural stupidity and callousness of the Post Office in the way it interpreted its contracts and the way…
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Horizon trial day 18 preview: Return of the JFSA
Morning all I spent the day yesterday in the dock of court 1 of the Old Bailey, which wasn’t something I was expecting.. It’s the venue for the London Bridge/Borough Market terror attack inquest. There is a huge dock in the centre of the court and for some reason reporters have to sit there. As…
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Horizon trial day 17: PEAKs and troughs
Ouch, ouch and double ouch What happened in court today was brutal. Really brutal. Have a read of my report here. My collated live tweets are here. The transcript is here and judgment number 5, which explains the thinking behind ordering the Post Office to pay 90% of the claimants’ costs is here. I am…
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A day of surprises
Horizon trial day 16: a day of surprises Evenin’ all I’m not making a very good fist of getting these out in good time am I? The trouble is, after 5 hours of live tweeting my brain is mush, especially when the subject matter is as technical as it was today. Tweeting is usually a…