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Reporting the Post Office Horizon IT Scandal

Post Office Scandal

Reporting the Post Office Horizon IT Scandal

The Second Sight Interim Report

Nick Wallis

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Ron Warmington (l) and Ian Henderson (r)

I’ve been talking a lot recently about Second Sight’s Interim Report, written by Ron Warmington and Ian Henderson. It is a game-changing, short, easy-to-read document, released on 8 July 2013 which sets out all of the Post Office’s problems to them in clear language.

It used to be published on the Post Office website, but it isn’t any more.

I am sure you can find it on the internet somewhere, but I thought it made sense to post it here. If you’ve never seen it before, it’s worth a read or a download.

20130708-POL-Interim-Report-SignedDownload

I also did a fisking of the Interim Report in 2013 for a very old personal blog. Do have a read of that if you’re interested.

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16 responses to “The Second Sight Interim Report”

  1. Asleep at the Neil – Post Office Scandal

    […] (commissioned in response to the Second Sight Interim Report, published in July 2013), noted that the Post Office simply had no idea how robust Horizon was and […]

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  2. The Wine Gums vs The Blob – Post Office Scandal

    […] repeated throughout the day that her biggest regret was not asking to see Second Sight’s Interim or final reports, both produced before she took office. She told Price: “I could have asked […]

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  3. Second Sight’s final report – Post Office Scandal

    […] this year I published Second Sight’s Interim Report, which was first published on the Post Office website on 8 July 2013 and removed several years […]

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  4. Furious Swinson claimed Paula Vennells deceived her – Post Office Scandal

    […] Office to prosecute Subpostmasters. It was triggered by the production of independent investigators Second Sight’s interim report which suggested the Horizon IT data used to prosecute Subpostmasters was potentially […]

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  5. Poor Tom – Post Office Scandal

    […] Callard (giving evidence on Friday) was not auspicious. Callard apparently reassured Cooper (per Second Sight’s interim report conclusions in 2013) that “no systematic errors [with Horizon] had been found”. Callard […]

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  6. Second Sight’s Ron Warmington and Ian Henderson give evidence – Post Office Scandal

    […] contracted via Warmington’s consultancy vehicle Second Sight. Second Sight’s seminal Interim Report, produced in July 2013, drew attention to serious problems at the Post Office, noting three bugs […]

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  7. Perkins in Wonderland: Day 1 – Post Office Scandal

    […] are her determination to instigate an independent review of the Horizon system (which led to the Second Sight Interim Report) and her equal determination to ensure that any review of campaigning Subpostmaster cases included […]

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  8. Paula Vennells and Mark Davies: Led by the (brown) nose – Post Office Scandal

    […] whose advice she could rely on. On 6 July 2013, Vennells was trying to work out how to respond to Second Sight’s Interim Report. Although the report wasn’t published until 8 July, Vennells and her team had early sight […]

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  9. Vennells Day 1: the Five Things we learned – Post Office Scandal

    […] Subpostmaster complaints and problems. At a recent talk in Walton-on-Thames, Ian Henderson (from Second Sight) described Bogerd as bright, able, hard-working and “completely brainwashed”. That is, unable […]

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  10. Feeding them to the Lyons – Post Office Scandal

    […] Second Sight’s seminal Interim Report: […]

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  11. Keeping their knees on Seema’s neck – Post Office Scandal

    […] Fujitsu engineer Gareth Jenkins had given expert evidence at Seema Misra’s 2010 trial without disclosing his knowledge of bugs, errors and defects within the Post Office’s Horizon system. In June 2013, Simon Clarke, an in-house barrister at Cartwright King (who prosecuted Subpostmasters on behalf of the Post Office) became aware of the draft Second Sight Interim Report. […]

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  12. The Bleatings of a Sorry Scapegoat: Lady Susan’s Pity Party – Post Office Scandal

    […] She wanted to do the right thing, which was manage the delivery of Second Sight’s independent (Interim) report, and to some degree she succeeded. She also colluded with her client, the Post Office, to change […]

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  13. Jennifer Torr avatar
    Jennifer Torr

    Attended your Shrewsbury Event (travelled from Manchester) with sub-post masters Moahamed Hami and Rubbina Shaheen. Very good event and lots of detail. I listened to your pod cast and read your book and have been following the Post Office Scandal for some time. Your recollection for what happened and when is amazing …I found the book heavy going due to the detail and timescales …allot to take in.
    What I took away from the Shrewsbury Event was the impact this has had on the sub-post masters ..hearing about Rubbina’s long term health issues was a difficult listen.
    Best event I have attended for some time and please continue with them …hopefully in the North West

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  14. Ian Henderson avatar
    Ian Henderson

    The Second Sight Interim Report (together with our other reports) is available on the JFSA website:

    https://www.jfsa.org.uk/resources.html

    Ian Henderson

    irh@advancedforensics.com

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  15. Trevor avatar
    Trevor

    Hi Nick have you any plans to bring your tour up north? leeds?
    thanks

    Reply
  16. Bryan Edwards avatar
    Bryan Edwards

    Nick
    I attended your presentation last week at Evesham and thought it was excellent, and a great idea to have a post master talking from her experience (very moving). Well done for everything you have done. Your book was a jaw dropper. Read it all in 2 weeks (very good for me).
    Keep up the good work with your team.
    Bryan

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