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Supporter of Sub-Postmasters in their fight for justice & compensation in the ongoing Post Office Horizon Scandal

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1/4 In an email of 2019, just weeks before the Horizon Issues trial, I alerted Paula Vennells to Chirag’s second £5k ‘shortfall’ which arose during an 8 month branch closure when the Horizon system was dormant & the safe remained sealed:
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The power of drama to shame politicians into action; two months ago Kevin Hollinrake was refusing point blank to instigate the mass exoneration of Post Office convictions:
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Alan Bates is to be Knighted! Congratulations to this national hero 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Alan Bates learned of Birthday Honours knighthood as Post Office boss was grilled

The campaigner had travelled to hear former CEO Paula Vennells give evidence when he received the news.

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4/4 How had Paula Vennells convinced herself that a system which could generate a £5k shortfall when not in use was more reliable than Chirag? And if she genuinely believed he had stolen £57k, why did she allow him to return to work as manager of his former post office branch?
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1/2 Angela van den Bogerd knew that Chirag’s second £5k ‘shortfall’ of June 2018 was generated during an 8 month branch closure when the Horizon system was dormant & the safe remained sealed. PO auditors had themselves closed the system down after their audit of October 2017.
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1/4 The sister of ex-Sub-Postmaster Martin Griffiths speaks out on a deeply painful day:
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May the bells ring out for all those whose convictions are overturned today under the Horizon Offences Bill; thoughts are with those who paved the way & for those who didn’t survive to see the day. The fight continues for the many yet to be exonerated… 🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘
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3/4 But Jeremy Hunt’s recollection of his conversation with Vennells regarding Chirag’s case offered a different slant, revealing her instinctive mistrust of Sub-Postmasters:
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@TomWitherow @nickwallis A brilliant piece, Tom, which highlights the ongoing nightmare of this scandal. All bankruptcy debts, incurred as a result of PO’s malicious actions, should be settled by PO on top of compensation. The Public Inquiry needs to get to grips with this without delay…
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2/4 Vennell’s response indicated her personal involvement in Chirag’s case. She offered assurance that she’d spoken to our MP, Jeremy Hunt, about the case:
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Of all the stories we’ve heard in this scandal, this is perhaps the most brutal. Who can imagine what this lady has been through & how she fights on, against such a merciless enemy, day in day out? Thanks @TomWitherow for bringing her story into the open:
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Widow of postmaster who took own life is denied Post Office compensation

Previously unreported death is fifth to be linked to the Horizon IT scandal

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A case to watch: Private Eye reports on an imminent submission to the CCRC which demands a fresh look at the integrity of the Post Office evidence used in the prosecution of Robin Garbutt:
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The ICO has found the Post Office to be in breach of section 17 & section 10 of the FOI Act in its inadequate response to questions regarding the provenance of its Security Compliance document which used racial identification codes:
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Ex-PO Chair Henry Staunton spills all in an extraordinary interview for The Times. His take on the Post Office Horizon Scandal compensation schemes could not be worse:
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At the time that Vennells was desperately attempting to avoid an independent inquiry into the scandal, she was a Non-Executive Board member of the Cabinet Office, the very Government department which advises ministers on Public Inquiries:
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‘Post Office failure to investigate properly is the real crime’  A must-read interview with one of Second Sight’s knights in shining armour, @forensicgod :
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‘Post Office failure to investigate properly is the real crime’

Ian Henderson, the forensic accountant who helped uncover the Horizon IT scandal, believes that even more damaging truths will soon be revealed

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With characteristic dignity, Teju speaks of the cruelty & oppression she suffered at the hands of the Post Office. It’s a story which is very far from over:
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‘Turned our lives upside down’: the day the Post Office investigators came

Teju Adedayo says she was pressured into confessing to Horizon IT errors, and she has lived under the shadow of it ever since

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Mr Scully explains all: the Post Office payments which were so profoundly controversial weren’t bonuses at all but part of a more complicated income structure. So that’s fine then.
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If you’ve been outraged by the Post Office Scandal, if you believe all those impacted deserve full & swift compensation, then join us in a respectful show of support outside the Public Inquiry: Thur 25 April, 8.45-9.30am by the entrance of Aldwych House, 71-91 Aldwych, WC2B 4HN
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I wrote to Greg Clark via my MP, Jeremy Hunt, urging him to exercise his powers as SoS & to intervene on 5.4.19, 22.4.19, 7.5.19, 20.05.19, 29.5.19 & 6.6.19. He replied on 16 July but didn’t intervene.  Little did I know then just how much he knew:
Guest Post: Eleanor Shaikh on The Rt. Hon. Greg Clark

This post has been submitted by Eleanor Shaikh, a much-loved campaigner and activist, creator of the famous “SOS – Support our Subpostmasters” red banner, and author of the epic O…

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An incredible audience reaction last night to ‘The Inside Story’ in Guildford. Huge respect to Seema & Davinder Misra & Chirag Sidhpura for sharing their stories once again with such dignity. Also to the formidable @nickwallis , his team & to Helen, David & Hannah @bathpublishing .
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1/4 As the disastrously flawed Government’s oversight of the Post Office is laid bare at the Inquiry, it’s worth remembering how the company’s ‘Arm’s-Length’ status came into being. It didn’t just happen, it was devised this way, in the face of fierce criticism.
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The Post Office continues to fight over disclosure, claiming legal privilege on documents sought by Ravinder Naga to overturn his conviction. There’s no guarantee he’ll be exonerated under the Scottish Horizon Offences Bill:
Judge ‘surprised’ at attempt to withhold documents from Post Office case appeal

Lawyers for the Post Office said they need more time to complete the disclosure process.

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1/4 CEO reports from Paula Vennells to the Post Office Board of 2013 are finally disclosed via FOI. They show the schmoozing of MPs:
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‘I will not allow a man-made computer system beat me. I am determined. I may have been left a broken man, mentally but with the support I have behind me makes me stronger than ever’  My ex-SPM, Chirag Sidhpura, 2022.  On the eve of the last compensation hearing he had a stroke.
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1/2 Here’s Jane MacLeod as a trustee of Rennie Grove Hospice in late 2022:
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Andrew Bridgen MP made a significant allegation in yesterday’s Commons debate: that by 2014 the Government had evidence of Horizon miscarriages of justice. Over to Sir Wyn…
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2/2 The question of how the system spontaneously generated a £5k shortfall was problematic for Bogerd, arising as it did on the brink of the GLO. Her review of Chirag’s case never yielded a definitive explanation of how it occurred because it was designed never to go that deep.
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Lord Offard refuses to engage on the question of what Ministers knew of the Post Office’s attempt to remove Justice Fraser:
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1/2 Thanks @alextomo for shining a spotlight on Angela van den Bogerd who was directly involved in the case of my ex-Sub-Postmaster, Chirag Sidhpura:
Post Office Scandal: what did top executive know?

She's been described as the Post Office executive who knew more about the Horizon IT scandal than anybody else. Angela van den Bogerd personally oversaw complaints about Horizon problems since 2010...

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The Cabinet Office is called upon to explain why it refused to fund Second Sight’s independent investigation into the Post Office’s Horizon system:
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1/6 Baroness Neville-Rolfe, appearing tomorrow at the Post Office Inquiry, claimed that the Horizon issue was ‘probably the most disturbing thing that I had to deal with’ & that she was ‘uneasy because it involved claims of dishonesty by apparently honest citizens’:
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What’s really going on with the Subpostmaster compensation schemes: powerful words indeed from the indefatigable Paul Marshall:
What’s really going on with the Subpostmaster compensation schemes pt. 1

Paul Marshall I’ve obtained a letter to Sir Wyn Williams, written by the barrister Paul Marshall. Sir Wyn is the retired judge who chairs the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry. Paul Marshall rep…

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10 months
Here’s the Toby Jones interview on ‘Mr. Bates vs. The Post Office’ @jayneKathryn
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Thanks to Mark Hollingsworth & The Telegraph for today’s piece on the 2016 Swift Review & ‘the documents that could have spared postmasters’ misery’ (p27). What PO CEO Paula Vennells knew of the findings & recommendations of this report is yet to be determined…
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@SkyNews Lord David Cameron may be pleading ignorance of the Post Office scandal, but what became of his pledge as Prime Minister to ‘get to the bottom of it’ in July 2015?
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A brilliant piece by @andyverity following his relentless deep dive into who, on the Post Office Board & in Government, knew what & when:
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The Post Office scandal doesn't stop with the Post Office. Read this for the low-down on a story that emerges from documents released under Freedom of Information. Assembled in a timeline, they become a little unsettling...This is top story this morning:
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@nickwallis Not forgetting, not only was Jane MacLeod fully versed in the contents of the Swift Review, she was also party to the Board discussions regarding the recusal of Judge Fraser. We must absolutely hear what she’s got to say.
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1/2 Angela van den Bogerd, former PO People Services Director, gives evidence to the Public Inquiry tomorrow. In 2018 she told my ex-SPM Chirag Sidhpura, who had repaid an alleged shortfall of £57,000, to ‘stop looking back at what has happened and look at the future’.
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1/22 When in September 2005 auditors discovered an alleged £52,864 shortfall in the branch account at Rainham Road Post Office, Sub-Postmistress Teju Adedayo fabricated a story to explain what had happened to the ‘missing’ money.
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The involvement of ministers in approving PO Inquiry bonuses renders DBT’s Simmons & Simmons Review a total travesty. DBT spent £294,600 on a half-hearted ‘investigation’ designed to placate the media & deflect attention from DBT’s, UKGI’s & HMT’s approval of the bonus metric:
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The UK government signed off on Post Office executives bonuses. @alextomo and @NanettevdLaan have this special report.
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The Lib Dem official website hosts a lengthy defence of Ed Davey’s response to the Post Office scandal. But why mislead with: ‘Even though the Post Office is owned by the government, Ministers have no seat on the board..’
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The Post Office Horizon Scandal

The Post Office Horizon scandal is an appalling miscarriage of justice. Ed Davey was the first Minister on record meeting with Alan Bates, just five months after becoming a Minister.

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In yesterday’s Lords debate on the Post Office (Horizon System) Bill, Lord Sikka makes powerful arguments for including DWP cases within the remit of the Bill. Why does the Government consider that DWP convictions are safe when CPS convictions are not?
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2/2 She signed the generic defence on behalf of the Post Office for the High Court Litigation, despite her knowledge of the 2016 Swift Review. She must be questioned.
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Thanks @nickwallis for bringing us the dark & hidden story behind this exceptionally dignified family. That Vipin is still waiting for compensation says everything about the Post Office’s brutality: ‘They work in ivory towers and we are small people, they couldn’t care less…’
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ITV News exclusive: Postmasters have spoken of the abuse they suffered in their communities after being convicted. This is the Patels' story... #PostOfficeScandal
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Front page of the Telegraph. Thanks Gareth!
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Even now, in it’s Phase 4 Closing Statement, the Post Office can’t refrain from attacking the integrity of Teju Adedayo, whilst urging the Inquiry to exercise caution in it’s findings regarding her case because it may yet be ‘subject to litigation’. Brutal.
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Don’t miss the next instalment of the BBC 4 series on the Post Office Horizon scandal, tomorrow @ 4pm @nickwallis
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9 months
Now that Lord Falconer is talking about the Post Office Horizon Scandal perhaps he’d like to answer a few questions:
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@LordCFalconer 1/5 @LordCFalconer , you express sympathy for Sub-Postmasters impacted by Post Office’s Horizon Issues, assuring fellow Lords ‘we all understand what the scandal was’. But can we really understand the scandal without unpicking the disastrous origins of the Horizon project?
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The Post Office Inquiry is inviting 16,000 people to share their experiences via two anonymous surveys. Those eligible to take part in the surveys include every current UK sub-postmaster and compensation applicants under the Horizon Shortfall Scheme:
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16,000 people urged to share experiences of the Post Office, ahead of final stage of Inquiry

Up to 16,000 people are to be contacted this week by researchers commissioned by the Inquiry.15 July 2024

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Angela van den Bogerd claims in her witness statement to have seen the Swift Review just 7 months earlier. In fact the report was released into the public domain in August 2022. It was disclosed to BEIS by the Post Office in March 2020 at which time Bogerd was still an employee:
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@scullyp @Channel4News @alextomo @NanettevdLaan No. Cooperating with the Public Inquiry was a legal and moral obligation for the Post Office. It should never have been, or needed to have been, incentivised through a bonus metric. I’m struggling to understand why you’re justifying this.
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1: Noel Thomas has launched his biography, a searingly honest account of an innocent sub-postmaster from Angelsey who withstood the ravages of the Horizon scandal & lived to tell the tale. It’s the story of a remarkable family who stood together to triumph against all the odds.
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1/5 Post Office CEO, Paula Vennells, was aware that Tim Parker’s 2015/16 Swift Review into Horizon Issues was underway:
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Toby Jones talks to BBC Breakfast about the ITV drama ‘Mr Bates vs. The Post Office’. He pays tribute to Alan Bates, an ‘unlikely but undoubted hero’ & urges survivors of the Horizon Scandal to contact the CCRC if they have not already done so.
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1/2 A Sub-Postmaster passing away before receiving full and fair compensation is not an ‘unfortunate event’. It’s a blistering tragedy for an entire family. It’s the result not of ‘misfortune’ but of ongoing, gross negligence of the highest order.
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🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘 SOS: SUPPORT OUR SUB- POSTMASTERS Tomorrow, 19 December, Parliament Square 12-3pm. Something has to change to accelerate the overturning of 900+ convictions & enable ALL those impacted by the Post Office Scandal to get full & fair compensation.
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“Freedom Of Information. Three harmless words.” WhatDoTheyKnow and the Post Office Horizon Scandal:
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WhatDoTheyKnow and the Post Office Horizon scandal

"Freedom Of Information. Three harmless words." The Post Office Horizon scandal serves as a prime example of how, when official channels have failed, determined investigators can eventually unpick...

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Can’t the Minister add these figures to make 3346, instead of saying ‘at least 2,700’ affected postmasters? And why forget the hundreds of individuals waiting for prosecutions to be overturned? We’re probably looking at 4,000 & rising…
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1/11: Released under FOI, letters from PO Chair, Tim Parker, to PO Minister, Paul Scully, and to BEIS Secretary of State, Kwasi Kwarteng, reveal his attempts in 2021 to secure an increase in remuneration to motivate and retain CEO Nick Read.
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Lord McFall of Alcluith announces the suspension of the sub judice rule with regards to ongoing legal proceedings involving the Post Office Horizon system during debates both in the House of Commons & in the House of Lords:
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The PO Horizon Offences Act came into effect on 24 May. Yesterday the Minister of State for Justice confirmed that just 10 of 700 letters have been sent to individuals confirming their convictions have been quashed. Without such a letter no claim for compensation can be made:
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@CastletonLee @Karlfl The fact is POL did not crush Lee Castleton; he’s emerged to tower valiantly above his oppressors as a beacon of honesty & integrity. What is crushed is the entire credibility of his persecutors, along with their fantastical rhetoric that this scandal is now a ‘historic’ matter.
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List of witnesses for Phases 5 and 6 of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry is published:
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List of witnesses for Phases 5 and 6

In alphabetical order by surname: 

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1/8 Here are two of the four letters released under FOI which have now been withdrawn from the WhatDoTheyKnow website whilst ‘investigating a report that this response contains personal information that has been released in error:
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A powerful letter from the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board arguing for ALL Post Office prosecutions to be overturned with the utmost urgency. I’ve sent it to my MP @Jeremy_Hunt asking him to champion this cause at the highest levels of Government:
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Callard was certain when giving evidence to the Inquiry today that he didn’t know Swift had written a report. Perhaps he just had the wrong hat on when, according to Vennells’ witness statement, the recommendations of the Swift Report were summarised for the Board:
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1/2 According to her witness statement, Jane MacLeod briefed the PO Board on the Swift Review findings & its recommendations for further investigations (p101); it was available to board members upon request. So did BIS representative Richard Callard read it &, if not, why not?
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1/14 Documents released via FOI reveal Ministers & officials endorsed the PO Inquiry metric as part of their approval of the eligibility of its CEO & CFO in the Transformation Incentive Scheme (TIS):
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Respect to the survivors who opened their hearts & retold their stories for the superb ITV documentary ‘The Real Story’; you’ve reminded the public that the bitter fight is far from over. Sending all impacted SPMs strength & hope in the onward battle 🆘
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Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Real Story - ITVX

The fight goes on - witness the incredible impact of ITV’s drama. How have the lives of the real subpostmasters changed?

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The Chair’s forward to the Post Office Annual Report misleadingly claims ‘all of the original applicants to the HSS’ have received offers. This overlooks the 155+ applicants whom the PO deemed ineligible. One waited over three years before the claim was rejected as ineligible.
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Today the Inquiry has published the hearing timetable for the final phase of the Inquiry’s hearings, Phase 7. During these upcoming hearings, Sir Wyn Williams will examine the current practice and procedure at the Post Office as well as compensation:
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Phase 7 Timetable

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www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk
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Those in glass houses, Ms Badenoch. Ask yourself why politicians never exercised their powers to see justice for the Sub-Postmasters in all the years leading up to the GLO…
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Scotland has a different legal system to the rest of GB. The SNP want independence but are too lazy to do the work. They have powers to get justice for the postmasters. They should stop whining and get on with it! Mr Yousaf has also confused Royal Mail with the Post Office🙄
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‘The Post Office Scandal: The Inside Story’ comes to Guildford this Wednesday, 15 May. Join @nickwallis at one of the last events of the tour for what promises to be a powerful evening. Guests are Seema & Davinder Misra and my ex-SPM, Chirag Sidhpura 🆘
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In today’s Daily Mail: thanks Tom!
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Tony Blair knew Post Office's IT system's flaw but went ahead anyway

Between 2000 and 2015, thousands of postmasters were accused of thieving from their own tills when unexplained 'shortfalls' appeared in the accounts.

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1/2: A must-see interview with the widow of a former SPM who took his own life the day PO auditors found an alleged shortfall. PO is refusing compensation believing ‘on the balance of probabilities’ the shortfall was not Horizon related. It has no Horizon data for the branch:
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1/10 On 8 July 2013 Second Sight published its interim report into the Post Office’s Horizon IT system. The following day, a Commons debate was held to consider its findings during which Business Minister, Jo Swinson, told MPs that the government could not get involved in
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Baroness Neville-Rolfe, who as BIS Parliamentary Under Secretary of State had the opportunity of surfacing Horizon issues in 2016, is now at the Cabinet Office deflecting questions regarding the reliability of Fujitsu software across government departments:
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Important to consider the involvement of the Attorney General’s Office here; the AGO’s investigation into PO Horizon issues began in July 2013, the very month the Post Office received the Clarke advice which alerted it to the potential of multiple miscarriages of justice:
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4/10 The Post Office has now disclosed the letter which confirms that on Tuesday 9 July 2013, the day after the publication of Second Sight’s interim report & on the very day of this debate, the Attorney General’s Office was indeed called upon to set up an enquiry in connection
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1/3 The Post Office has refused disclosure of two key documents produced by Deloitte in 2014 on the grounds of LPP, arguing that they were created for the dominant purposes of litigation. But there was no litigation in 2014.
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Baljit & Ankara Sethi, bankrupted 21 years ago by the Horizon scandal, spoke to BBC News today: ‘I want to see them giving this compensation when I’m alive so that at least what they did wrong to us I can give something to my grandchildren, if I couldn’t give to my children’.
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🆘 SOS: SUPPORT OUR SUB-POSTMASTERS 🆘 Join us in a peaceful show of support for those caught in the Post Office Horizon scandal. Gathering on 27 April, 9-9.45am, outside Aldwych House where the Public Inquiry will hold a special Compensation Hearing. 71-91 Aldwych, WC2B 4HN
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One exceptionally brave lady, Tracy Felstead, confronts the horrors of the past on BBC Breakfast this morning. Good luck to all those participating in the Williams Inquiry...
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@Channel4News @alextomo @NanettevdLaan Here’s the document which shows Minister Paul Scully approved the performance targets for Post Office bonuses including the Inquiry Metric:
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Paula Vennells arriving at the Post Office Inquiry this morning for her final day of evidence:
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2019 notes disclosed via FOI reveal Greg Clark’s serious concerns over the poor judgement of the PO Board in handling the GLO litigation (‘shades of Windrush’). He wants BEIS ‘on the side of Postmasters’ whilst Chisholm advises against publicly setting BEIS at odds with the PO:
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SOS: SUPPORT OUR SUB-POSTMASTERS: A peaceful show of support for all those impacted by the Post Office Horizon Scandal, outside the International Dispute Resolution Centre, 8 December from 9am
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Nick Read & his bungled bonus bonanza make it to the national BBC Business News:
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He’s 39.  No victim of this appalling scandal should be having to fight for full & fair compensation for the wrongs endured at the hands of the Post Office: ‘I had goals and plans to give myself and my family a better life and a bright future. This was stolen from me overnight’
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The Post Office Inquiry announces the appointment of two Governance Expert Witnesses:
Horizon IT Inquiry jointly appoints Dame Sandra Dawson and Dr Katy Steward as Governance Expert...

Experienced experts instructed to produce reports into corporate governance and culture at Post Office Ltd  9 January 2024

www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk
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A support group for children of the Horizon scandal has been set up by the formidable Katie Downey. If your childhood or early adulthood was blighted by this scandal, it offers a safe space where your voice will be heard & understood:
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Millie reveals the unimaginable & profound impacts which followed in the wake of PO’s persecution of her dad @CastletonLee . May her great courage in speaking out give others the strength to come forward; we must hear the voices of all children abused in the course of this scandal
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An eloquent submission to the Inquiry from an anonymous Horizon survivor. She has a degree in foreign languages & literature, but the fear of exposing her conviction led her to ‘live in the shadows’ as a cleaner, working ten hours a day, seven days a week, without holidays:
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Respect to all survivors of the Horizon Scandal who attended the Inquiry today or followed remotely. Your legal teams did a phenomenal job in exposing the chaos of compensation & the devastating effect this is having for all. You’ve endured far too much without this added abuse.
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@BBCEmmaSimpson @nickwallis This is a triumph for the five individuals involved & their legal teams. That the PO singled them out for such appalling & discriminatory treatment - until now - is added proof that the PO should have absolutely no say in determining levels of compensation.
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2/2 Multiply that ‘unfortunate event’ by sixty, Minister, and you might begin to grasp the scale of your departments’ slothful incompetence in this appalling national scandal.
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Yesterday in the Lords, former solicitor general Lord Garnier echoed the Justice Secretary regarding the current CCRC leadership. Systemic CCRC failures, fully exposed in the recent Henley report, have direct bearing on those Post Office cases still awaiting referral to the CoA:
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Why, over a year after their convictions were overturned, are a number of the 555 still being refused interim payments & why, against the advice of Sir Wyn Williams, is PO still the arbiter of this decision? And why is BEIS allowing such a blatant travesty to continue?
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@nickwallis Thanks @nickwallis for your relentless coverage of Phase 5/6 of the Inquiry, your pace of producing such informed & invaluable analysis is awesome 👏👏👏
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This show is a must see for anyone following the Post Office Horizon Scandal. It’s a story which continues to unfold in real time; that of a reckless leadership still trampling over Sub-Postmasters, still driving their victims & a national institution ever closer to the brink…
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