On 23rd April 2021, the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 39 former Subpostmasters and ruled their prosecutions were an affront to the public conscience. It is a scandal that has been described as one of the most widespread and significant miscarriages of justice in UK legal history. The 39 were just a few of the 738 people who, between 2000 and 2015, had been prosecuted by the Post Office for theft, false accounting and fraud. The prosecutions were based largely on evidence drawn from Horizon, the Post Office’s deeply flawed software system that threw up duplicate entries, lost...
On 23rd April 2021, the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 39 former Subpostmasters and ruled their prosecutions were an affront to the public...
The Great Post Office Cover Up reveals for the first time the full story behind the largest miscarriage of justice the nation has ever seen. Building on The Great Post Office Scandal, freelance journalist and broadcaster, Nick Wallis, uses the fresh evidence uncovered by the Inquiry and Nick's own journalism to chronicle the legal obstruction and embedded cultural attitudes that led one of the nation's most respected institutions to become a byword for corporate callousness and incompetence. Along the way, he recounts hitherto untold stories of the human cost of their actions. The...
The Great Post Office Cover Up reveals for the first time the full story behind the largest miscarriage of justice the nation has ever seen. Building...
