The Great Post Office Scandal: The story of the fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail

by Nick Wallis

Now the MPs had made their feelings about the Post Office’s behaviour abundantly clear, the Post Office had a choice. It could make peace overtures, or it could enter a period of menacing denialism which, to any rational observer, was completely unhinged. It chose to do the latter.

This proves that The Post Office DID have an issue. And did ignore it all.

They’re the judge, the jury and the executioner.

the Post Office had so far refused to give up any of its secrets without a serious fight.

The Post Office’s confidential review of its 900-odd prosecutions had grown over the course of 2020 into one of the biggest internal investigations in British corporate history. It involved 60 barristers sifting through more than 4.5 million documents.

Sitting in court, I again had one of those moments where I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. The Post Office had ordered the shredding of documents?!

I can tell you Horizon’s arrival brought about an immediate 232% increase in Post Office prosecutions of Subpostmasters for shortfall-related offences.

Horizon was a badly-procured and atrociously-implemented IT disaster. It was operated in an environment where flawed and incompetent people were able to destroy people’s lives without a shred of accountability.