The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to
expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail Hardcover – November 18, 2021
by Nick Wallis (Author)
This
“factual thriller” from the journalist Nick Wallis details a scandal which has
been described as one of the most widespread and significant miscarriages of
justice in legal history. 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. They had been prosecuted by the Post Office
using IT evidence from an unreliable computer system called Horizon.
When the
Post Office became aware that Horizon didn’t work properly, it covered it up.
Nick describes how a group of Subpostmasters worked out what was going on,
formed a campaign group and fought the government-owned Post Office through the
courts to eventual victory.
The Great
Post Office Scandal has been described as “an extraordinary journalistic exposé
of a huge miscarriage of justice” by Ian Hislop, Editor of Private Eye
Magazine.
Dame Joan
Bakewell says “Nick’s narrative has the power of a great thriller as he lays
bare the lies and deceit that has ruined so many lives.”
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