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2022
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“Desperate” serving Subpostmaster pens letter to Post Office CEO, Nick Read
Also: no inquiry news before Christmas Hi there I wanted to put up this story last week, but it would have got swallowed up by the compensation hearing. It’s an open letter from a serving Subpostmaster to the Post Office CEO. Of course, a lot of those who weren’t done by Horizon were done by…
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Subpostmaster special compensation hearing report: achieving little, slowly
Show them some money It is the final humiliation. Years after being hounded out of their life-savings and livelihoods, years after beings shunned by their communities, and in many cases their own families, the finally victorious, finally vindicated Subpostmasters are finding out a brutal truth. Justice is a miserable, fleeting thing. When Alan Bates, his…
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BEIS announces details of compensation scheme for the 492
Compensation calling Hi There has been a flurry of activity this morning over compensation for Subpostmasters as the government announced details of a scheme which will hopefully get the 492 (the 555 minus those with quashed/unquashed criminal convictions who will go into the overturned compensation scheme if/when their convictions are overturned). The structure of the…
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Phase 2 of the inquiry comes to a close with some draw-dropping evidence from the NFSP
Both ends of the telescope Good morning I’m meant to be writing about Johnny Depp, so I will try to keep this brief! Over the weekend I posted up two very different stories: 1) Lisa Kear’s harrowing tale of trying to run a Post Office, which eventually broke her, financially and mentally, in November 2019.…
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A bit of exclusive content – Lisa and John share their very different stories
Both ends of the telescope Good morning I’m meant to be writing about Johnny Depp, so I will try to keep this brief! Over the weekend I posted up two very different stories: 1) Lisa Kear’s harrowing tale of trying to run a Post Office, which eventually broke her, financially and mentally, in November 2019.…
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Byers Remorse – former Secretary of State reveals structural dysfunction at the top of government
Big picture disaster Hi everyone I’d like to start with a big thank you to everyone who has signed up to the secret email over the last week or so – it always amazes me how people find their way to doing so when we’re being a bit quiet. Rebecca and I have been quite…
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Dave the Destroyer cuts a swathe through Fujitsu
They knew all along Horizon wouldn’t work Good afternoon Easily the most important, highly skilled and articulate technical witness gave evidence at the inquiry yesterday – Dave McDonnell, co-author of the internal Fujitsu/ICL report which laid bare the deficiencies in the Horizon EPOS (Electronic Point of Sale) system before its rollout, was very much worth…
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“I tend not to believe what journalists write”
plus: Fujitsu’s Special Laptop Hi there The evidence was a bit of a grind last week, but over the three days the inquiry was sitting there were some useful revelations. Rebecca and I have summarised them on Episode 21 of our podcast – The Special Laptop. We found out that Fujitsu engineer Anne Chambers was…
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Bad code, bad systems, bad times
The Good Folkes Good afternoon from a wet Walton-on-Thames. It’s been another fascinating week at the inquiry. To summarise, the Post Office bosses were under pressure from the government to get Horizon live system out, Fujitsu were trying to pretend it was more stable than it was and no one outside the legal department was…
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The Inquiry’s Miller Time, scandal fund helps Gizmo and new live event in Henley-on-Thames
Post Office warned of IT ‘trauma’ in 1999 Good evening. Apologies for the slight delay in getting a newsletter together, Mrs Wallis and I stole away for a bit at the end of the half term week which threw things slightly out of whack. I spent the entirety of Friday evening watching two days worth…