Joining me for a Q&A will be local former Subpostmaster, Chirag Sidhpura, who has been treated abominably by the Post Office. @Jeremy_Hunt, who has supported Chirag throughout his campaign for reinstatement…
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@Jeremy_Hunt@ElCShaikh@bathpublishing There is a social afterwards in the church hall where I'll be signing books and chatting to anyone who wants to about everything. Hopefully Chirag will be able to stick around, too.
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@Jeremy_Hunt@ElCShaikh@bathpublishing It's £10 (£5 concs) for entry and a glass of wine or £25 for a book, entry and a glass of wine! Please come if you can or if you know someone in the area who might want to go along, please forward them the above link.
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@Jeremy_Hunt@ElCShaikh@bathpublishing I've done quite a few signing/readings/Q&As now and it’s great meeting people who want to know more about this scandal and seeing former Subpostmasters speak about their experiences. I hope you can make it.
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Okay the inquiry is going to get underway with the evidence of Chirag Sidhpura - he’s just been sworn in. You can read his story here: postofficetrial.com/2019/09/chirag…
Chirag is the former Farncombe Subpostmaster. Thread...
Catriona Hodge is asking questions for the inquiry. Sir Wyn Williams is dialled in remotely.
CH starts with questions about CS’s background - he has a computer engineer looking after 30 sites - servicing the infrastructure.
Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of a large number of crowdfunders I am now in a position to cover the Depp v Heard trial at Fairfax County Court in Virginia on 11 April. It happened far more quickly than I ever could have expected - six days! I am grateful.
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As those who have signed up to the Reporting Depp v Heard newsletter will know, I am still working out/taking advice on the most productive and useful way to do cover the case. It will be very different from Depp v NGN in 2020 because….
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… at the moment a broadcast camera will be allowed into the courtroom, but live-tweeting is currently disallowed. Notwithstanding, there will be value to be had from being a reporter on the ground, which I hope to convert into useful journalism…
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To the dear patient followers who took an interest in my coverage of Depp v NGN - I am hoping to crowdfund my way to the US to cover the Depp v Heard trial in April. I have a visa and a flight, but…
I realise that last time round I was live-tweeting from the High Court before I even asked asked for tips. Not the wrong side of the Atlantic.
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I also realise that in 2020 there weren’t many or any people providing a blow-by-blow account of proceedings. Or transcripts. Or important court documents. That will be different in April.
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Welcome to day 10 of the public impact hearings of the Statutory Inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal. Today we will hear from Seema Misra, Janet Skinner and Tracy Felstead. All three women went to prison. All three had their convictions quashed at the Court of Appeal...
on 23 April 2021. They and their legal team had fought hard to argue the case that their convictions weren’t just unsafe, but an affront to the conscience of the court. That means it should never have been brought. The Post Office used all the legal firepower at its disposal...
… to try to stop this. It is certainly possible that were it not for Janet, Seema and Tracy, the Clarke Advice (which proved the Post Office knew it was responsible for unsafe prosecutions in 2013) may not have been made public. It is a racing certainty that had their...
Just dropped into the inquiry to finally meet Malcolm and Lesley Simpson who I have corresponded with for a while now and have a great affection for. Malcolm is currently describing to the inquiry how he came to be a Postmasters at Box Grove Post Office. #PostOfficeScandal
I won’t tweet everything he says as the inquiry is being streamed almost-live on youtube here:
Malcolm didn’t really want to take over the Post Office within his shop (in 2007), but when the existing Subpostmaster [SPM] retired he took it over “I wasn’t 100% happy about it… but it was there, it was an asset to the village”
Hello followers of the Post Office Horizon Scandal. I am going to attempt to live tweet the BEIS Select Committee hearing during which the Post Office CEO Nick Read is being grilled. You can watch it live here:
Darren Jones, the committee chair starts of calling Mr Read “Nick” which is very chummy and asking him why he can’t give proper compensation to everyone.
Read says it’s difficult. He wants to be thorough and get it right. On the GLO settlement for the 555...
… Read says he can “empathise” and has been working with govt and encouraging govt to compensate them properly.
Jones asks the question again - what is stopping you from giving full settlement to everyone.
Read says he doesn’t have the resources. 950 prosecuted, 736 had...