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2023
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Mr Bates vs The Post Office to kick off a big year
plus: More Serious Compensation Concerns Hello, How are we all then? Christmas break going well? Ready for 2024? It’s certainly going to be a big year in terms of public awareness of the Post Office scandal. Firstly there is Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which goes out on ITV1 at 9pm for four nights…
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Paul Scully exclusive interview
plus: James Hartley on Today! Hello everyone When Paul Scully was reshuffled out of government in November, I got in touch and asked if he’d do a podcast, talking about his experience of being Post Office minister from Feb 2020 to July 2022. At t time the government was trying to work out how to…
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The Answer(s) to the Question: Where did all the money go?
plus: Gary’s years of hurt(ing people) G’morning, The most common question I get asked about this scandal is “Where did all the money go?“, occasionally accompanied by “It must have gone somewhere. Money isn’t created out of thin air. In a double-entry accounting system, it has to show up somewhere. It can always be properly…
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Exclusive: Post Office and govt fail in attempt to reduce Subpostmaster compensation pots
plus: Noel gets a paperback edition Morning! I am trying not to bombard you with too many newsletters as I appreciate it can induce fatigue, but I thought I’d point you to a wee exclusive on my Post Office Scandal website this morning. The government and the Post Office have been trying run an argument…
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“there is FFFFiiinnn no ‘Case for the Justice of Thieving Subpostmasters’”. A Post Office Investigator Writes…
plus: Altman’s Altamont Hi everyone I was hoping to write a piece about Gary Thomas’s evidence to the Post Office Inquiry on Thursday but events have rather overtaken me. I started the week with very little work on (just a day shift at ITV News on Friday), but then I got two days at 5…
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Jarnail Singh’s strange song
plus: Watch the Bates v Post Office trailer! Good afternoon I’ve written a piece about Jarnail Singh’s evidence to the Inquiry. It was a shambolic, miserable affair. Day 1 revealed Singh as an utter incompetent. Day 2 was more about specific failings in the prosecution of Seema Misra. These were revealed to be huge, and…
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Singh on the stand, plus more clues about the criminal conspiracy at the Post Office
plus: Government torpedoes GLO deadline Hi there Jarnail Singh, the internal Post Office lawyer who sent round an email crowing about the imprisonment of Seema Misra, is currently giving a masterclass in confused obfuscation at the Horizon IT inquiry. He really isn’t making much sense, but it is compelling viewing. You can spend the next…
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The Post Office vs Teju Adedayo and some Horizon Scandal Fund news
Rank injustice Good afternoon There are some people affected by this story who mean a lot to me. Teju Adedayo is one of them. I met her during the group litigation in 2018. Her unfailing good humour and certainty that the truth would come out over the course of legal proceedings was something to witness.…
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Professor Moorhead calls for Bar Standards Board investigation into barrister evidence, plus…
Shaikh-ing things up! Hello! I’m delighted to tell you that Eleanor Shaikh, who will be well known to many of you, has agreed to join the board of trustees at the Horizon Scandal Fund. If you don’t know who Eleanor is or what the Horizon Scandal Fund does, please click here for the full press…
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Woeful Whitaker relies on Belief
The Bare Minimum Effort Good morning It’s a soggy Saturday and I am on football duty. I am writing to alert you to a new blog post. It concerns another Post Office investigator asserting his career-long blind belief in the integrity of the Horizon IT system. Paul Whitaker (above) gave evidence on Thursday. Towards the…