23: Ep 23 - Byers Beware

Our first former Secretary of State - Stephen Byers - and the first woman - Dr Sarah Graham - give evidence to Phase 2 of the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry. Nick and Rebecca have parsed the week's testimony to present all the newsworthy tidbits to you. We also promised  lots of links - so in the order in which they are mentioned in the podcast: Rebecca's first investigation for Computer Weekly in 2009: https://www.computerweekly.com/news Tony Collins' excellent blog post on how a similar scandal is likely: https://ukcampaign4change.com/2022/10/07/most-of-the-underlying-causes-of-the-post-office-it-scandal-are-unfixable/ Karl Flinders' Computer Weekly piece on Horizon inquiry IT expert Charles Cipione's findings: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252527436/Post-Office-scandal-inquirys-expert-IT-witness-troubled-by-his-findings Donate to keep us afloat! https://www.postofficescandal.uk/donate/ Have a look at the inquiry website! https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk Buy Nick's book! https://bathpublishing.com/products/the-great-post-office-scandal-updated-pbk

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Journalists Rebecca Thomson and Nick Wallis cover the ongoing Post Office Horizon IT scandal which led to the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK legal history. Hundreds of people were wrongly criminalised, thousands lost money and when the Post Office and government realised what they had been doing, they covered it up. To date, no one has been held accountable. Made with thanks to Whistledown for their production support.