Investigating the Post Office Scandal

Lee was there right at the beginning, has seen it all and has campaigned hard every step of the way. How hard is to be a campaigner when you've been sapped of your energy and you have no funds to fight? Lee should be celebrating victory after helping Alan Bates lead 500+ claimants to victory at the High Court in 2019, but the reality is very different. Lee is a great talker and one of the true her...

In this episode, John O'Sullivan, the recently elevated joint Subpostmaster of Borough Wash Post Office talks about his life working in his partner's Post Office for more than two decades, his childhood as a Jehovah's Witness and his Irish Rebel family history. John also explains his empathy for victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal and why he is focusing his attention on the NFSP and the Pos...

On 11 August there was a huge FOI drop thanks to the tireless efforts of  campaigner Eleanor Shaikh. You can read and/or download that report here , or just listen to barrister Paul Marshall, Rebecca Thomson and Nick Wallis discuss it. Paul also tells us why he wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions outlining his concerns that there has been a Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice at t...

Rebecca is holiday, but despite this she has helped put together a stunning Sunday Times piece and recorded an interview with Dr Hannah Quirk, a reader in criminal law at Kings College, London. Dr Quirk used to work at the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) and has an impressive breadth of knowledge on historical miscarriages of justice. She is obviously interested in the Post Office scandal...

Rebecca has been along to the Court of Appeal to witness five more Subpostmasters have their convictions quashed. She spoke to one of them - Richard Hawkes - about his ordeal. Rebecca has also interviewed legal blogger and academic Professor Richard Moorhead from Exeter University who has opened up an entire field of study based on the Post Office Scandal, particularly the legal failings which hav...

A wide-ranging interview with Mark Baker, a long-serving Postmaster and CWU union rep, who has just announced his retirement. Mark posted a note on the CWU Postmasters facebook page stating that the Post Office has rendered the Post Office counter side of his retail business "totally unviable" due to what he calls "their scandalous remuneration system". He goes on to say "we will not allow our ret...

Journalists Rebecca Thomson and Nick Wallis attend the Post Office Horizon Inquiry's second compensation hearing in Central London. Interviews with Flora Page, Seema Misra, Janet Skinner, Tracy Felstead and Parmod Kalia

On 6 July 2022, the statutory inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal held the first ( see the video here ) of two hearings into the issue of proper compensation for Subpostmasters at The Oval cricket ground. Rebecca and Nick went along and ended up interviewing David Enright from Howe and Co (a legal firm representing more than a hundred Subpostmasters at this inquiry) and Kevin Brown, whose...

On 9 June 2022, Gillian Harrison and Richard Ormerod won their appeals against their convictions at Southwark Crown Court. They became the 74th and 75th Subpostmasters to have their convictions quashed. Rebecca and Nick went along to watch it happen and speak to Gillian, Richard and representatives from their legal firm, Hudgells. Rebecca and Nick start by discussing the awkwardness of being a jou...

In which Rebecca, Nick and Silent Simon the Producer try to decide what the podcast should be called. And then they decide. And then Nick tries to explain the Post Office Horizon Scandal for people who may not be aware of it, and Rebecca talks about breaking the story back in 2009.